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PCC approaches miners to launder money
By Clara Britto , from Amazônia Real |
07/07/21
Experts say the country’s lack of regulation of the gold market is a flowing river of opportunities for dealers and criminals. Aircraft-based mining logistics also attract organized crime to the drug transportation business
In 2021, the spiral of violence that marks
illegal mining activities in the Yanomami Indigenous Land (TIY) reached new highs.
On May 10, the Palimiu village, on the banks of the Uraricoera River,
was attacked by gunfire. The next day, six federal police officers were sent to
In 1986, Jucá allowed illegal mining in
Roraima to advance by expanding an old airstrip in the region of Paapiu and
Couto de Magalhães, on the border between Brazil and Venezuela. The work of the
Brazilian Air Force (FAB) facilitated the entry of invaders, as no military base
was built at the site. The following year, Jucá expelled NGOs and religious
missions and ordered the removal of health teams from TI Yanomami, in the midst
of a pandemic of malaria and the flu. And in August 1988, at the end of his
term as chairman of Funai, he even proposed a 75% reduction in the size of TI