Friday, September 05, 2008

Indian land


There are about 350.000 NGO’s in Brazil, about 100.000 only in the Amazon region. Many of them are financed by European, American and Japanese governments, associations and companies.
Indians are the biggest land owners of this country. They are 0.2% of the population but own 13% of this country. Despite that, they live in poverty. It’s stupid to think that giving them more land would be the solution. It’s not. The solution is to fully integrate them in Brazilian economic and social life, specially trough education.
Of course, the NGO’s humanists think we should leave them isolated from the world, in their own land, living like their ancestors before Columbus, killing each other, burying their handicapped children alive, eating roots and fish.
Many of these NGO’s are working together with the Brazilian FUNAI (National Indian Protection Foundation) to delimitate new Indian land reserves.
By “coincidence”, most of the existing Indian lands are located exactly over Brazilian mineral reserves of potassium, manganese, niobium, nickel, aluminum...
Now, some NGO’s and the FUNAI want to declare a third of the State of Mato Grosso do Sul as Indian land. It’s an area bigger than Portugal. Under Mato Grosso do Sul is the Guarani Aquifer, largest single body of ground fresh water in the world. Another coincidence?
I don’t think so. All this Indian tribes, lead by NGO’s have the pretention of becoming independent nations one day, claiming cultural differences and historical oppression by the white man.
And then, this new nations will be ready to negotiate their riches with the ones who supported them.
Everything is happening just now, right in front of our government and Army’s eyes.
While Brazilian politicians can’t see beyond the next election, there are people out there thinking a lot ahead.

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