Situation of Indigenous Peoples in Mato Grosso do Sul slide image

Situation of Indigenous Peoples in Mato Grosso do Sul

+ INDIGENIST MISSIONARY COUNCIL - CIMI the studies were not carried out until the work was nearly finished. The satellite image below, in and of itself, substantiates the argument of the community that the plant situated between the two villages "just undermines the demarcation of the land". The choice of construction location for a plant is a decision that is not simply economic. Political factors are also preponderant. There is no reason to believe it a mere artifice of chance that the Cosan plant was sited, precisely there; after all, businesses Guyaroka Approximate location of Usina Cosan Rancho Jac Takuara ©2011 Inay Diem SRL 2011 MapLink Telles image © 2011 Geofye 22:35:37883543050 380 1291 Ta Google Earth Image. Free version. Captured on: August 7, 2011. Google are installed in one place over another as a function of economic and political incentives. Other factories already installed, and in the process of installation in Mato Grosso do Sul, appear to obey the same logic: the occupation of the spaces being demanded by the communities with the large enterprises, prior to the lands being finalized as indigenous. The Brazilian State has, in the past, frequently been accused of having been tutelary and integrationist. In the 1950s it promoted, in one of its arrogant fits of authoritarianism, the project of occupation of spaces, which culminated in the removal of the Guarani Kaiowá and Ñandeva from their traditional lands of occupation - the well-known case of the deployment of the National Agricultural Colony of Dourados (CAND). In its current PR spin, it is today represented as democratic and multicultural, attracting large corporations with globalized capital. Incentivized to come to the Southern Cone of Mato Grosso do Sul, the cane factories compete with communities struggling to have their lands recognized. The arrivals of the enterprises, with the incentives of a Schizophrenic State make the regularization of the indigenous lands increasingly time-consuming and intangible. The result of this violence of the State9 that, when not contributing, undermines and even prevents the regularization of the indigenous lands in Mato Grosso do Sul, has had, as a result, other forms of violence, more visible and quantifiable, as evidenced in the elevated rates of childhood malnutrition, in the high rates of infant/child mortality, in the absence of safety in densely populated villages, in the growing number of homicides and suicides, in the scale of the racism and inter-ethnic hatred, in the hunger for food and in the hunger for justice.
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