A topic deleted from the electoral agenda in Brazil, the Amazon continues with priority and daily attention abroad. In the Reuters agency, “Lula asks for help from the European Union to support Amazonian biodiversity”, in a meeting with parliamentarians.
Vehicles from Europe and others have turned in recent days to the death of the “loneliest man in the world”, in the words of the ARD network, Süddeutsche Zeitung and other Germans, pointing to the tribe’s “complete genocide” in Rondônia, “a genocide via livestock”.
Also French like Le Monde and BFMTV, Chinese like Xinhua and South China Morning Post, Americans like CNN and New York Times, this one with the call “A man dies, and an entire isolated tribe disappears in Brazil”.
More forcefully, the Washington Post dedicates its digital headline this Tuesday to “The lawless and violent erasure of the Amazon” (above, with a photo of an inspector in Acre), a new report in the series started in March by correspondent Terrence McCoy, “The Amazon, undone”.
In short, in the headline: “Inspection agencies have been destroyed. Courts are lenient. Resources can last forever. Deforesters continue to deforest, because they know they can.” In the internal title, “failure to enforce” the laws.
Also this Tuesday, at 10 pm (Brasilia), the PBS network presents the documentary “Ascensão dos Bolsonaros” in the USA, listening to politicians like Steve Bannon and journalists like McCoy, from WaPo, and Andrew Fishman, from The Intercept, who is talking about Jair Bolsonaro: “He was funny, he was a joke, until he stopped being a joke”.
According to the trailer above, one of the focuses is the Amazon. “Deforestation has really increased,” says Sarah Esther Maslin of The Economist magazine. Next week, the documentary will be shown on the British BBC.
