The Brazilian Air Force (FAB) extended until May the partial opening of the airspace of the Yanomami Indigenous Land, in Roraima, for the voluntary departure of miners.
The Brazilian Air Force (FAB) extended until May the partial opening of the airspace of the Yanomami Indigenous Land, in Roraima, for the voluntary departure of miners. Now they have the possibility to leave the region until the 6th of May.
The new deadline was informed this Monday (13) by the Amazon Joint Operational Command. Initially, the deadline would end at 1 am this Monday.
“The three humanitarian flight corridors were opened on the 6th of February, with the aim of enabling the coordinated and spontaneous departure of non-indigenous people from illegal mining areas by air”, says a command note.
As Folha de S.Paulo showed last Saturday (11), teams from Ibama (Brazilian Institute for the Environment and Renewable Natural Resources) detected a flow of prospector boats with fuel and supplies entering Yanomami land, an indication of the continuity of the gold and cassiterite exploration activity despite the actions for its dismantling.
In addition, agents from the federal environmental agency noted the willingness of groups of armed invaders to resist and confront the police forces, who began to operate to destroy aircraft and machinery and to remove prospectors.
The continuation of the flow of invaders into the indigenous land and the willingness to violence give a dimension of the complexity and size of the problem of the prospector invasion in the Yanomami area, which had the connivance and encouragement of the government of former President Jair Bolsonaro (PL) .
The measure is part of Operation Yanomami Shield, launched on the 31st, when President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (PT) published a decree expanding the power of action of the ministries of Defense, Health, Social Development and
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Social Assistance, Family and Combating Hunger and Indigenous Peoples, in addition to providing for the creation of Zida.
The Lula government (PT) declared a public health emergency on the 20th, after the president received images of indigenous people with severe malnutrition. He paid a visit to Roraima the next day, which highlighted the explosion in cases of malnutrition, diseases associated with hunger (such as diarrhea and respiratory infections) and malaria.