Organized crime is increasingly contributing not only to deforestation in the region but also to a surge of violence in Amazon cities Unemployment is also higher than the national average and half of those who do have jobs work in the informal sector Predictably, large Amazonian cities such as Belém, Manaus, and Porto Velho are grappling with sharp increases in violent crime—but so are many of its smaller and medium-sized towns like Altamira In 2023, nine of Brazil’s 30 most murderous cities were in the Amazon, with an average urban murder rate of over 34 per 100,000, 13% higher than the national urban rate. While homicide rates have declined in most of Brazil since 2017 they have continued to rise in many Amazon municipalities Brazilian syndicates like the First Capital Command (PCC) and Red Command (CV) have diffused into the Amazon from southern cities such as São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro These factions and their affiliates are recruiting locals into their ranks especially adolescents with limited job prospects The former directs additional resources to fighting environment crime while the latter expands military and police action across 34 bases in the Amazon there is no comprehensive national or regional strategy to improve public security and safety in the urban Amazon One reason for this is constitutional: State governments control law enforcement and criminal justice with cities typically less involved in the public security agenda though its outcomes are not publicly reported While there is growing attention to the legitimate development needs of the urban Amazon the reality is that most of its hundreds of small mid-sized and large cities and towns still lack the necessary plans especially if Brazil intends to meet its ambitious climate and nature targets by 2030 and beyond.  Reading Time: 4 minutesMuggah is a co-founder and research director of the Igarapé Institute, a leading think tank in Brazil. 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Amazon is the largest tropical rainforest on our planet and home to around 40,000 plant species Its berries contain abundant antioxidants which make them a powerful natural ingredient in high-performing and sustainable cosmetics actives and scrubs developed by Clariant’s Personal Care Specialties company açaí is a very popular fruit in Brazil and one of thousands used by Amazonian native people for medicinal and health purposes Açaí can be found in the Amazon year-round but its harvesting season which happens in the Amazonian summer from August to November is considered an »event« to the communities that work with the plant and who collect and transport several tons of the berries during this period It’s seven o’clock in the morning in the rainforest near Ananindeua in the Pará province of Brazil and as he does every morning during harvest season a local resident and açaí agro-extractive producer while his colleague is already shimmying up the trunk my father worked with açaí for about 30 years that’s how we started working with the berry this is how we earn a living,« he explains Açaí berries grow on branches and need to be gently picked and placed in baskets before further processing After reaching the bunches of berries towards the top of the tree Pantoja da Costa gently pulls them off the branches that look a bit like weeping willow and places them in a basket that he carries on his shoulder The baskets are then weighted and loaded onto a boat and then a truck to be taken to the Beraca factory in Ananindeua that will receive the raw material and transform it into the all-important açaí oil and açaí extract »Beraca helped broaden our vision with a new reality with suggestions on a new structure and management practices to have a quality product The company also shared with us the vision of what organic diversity means and it was through the partnership with them that we acquired knowledge and learned more about the processes within the açaí market,« said Tadeu de Melo a local rural producers’ organization Beraca provides incentives such as training the development of local projects and fair pricing to help producers They don’t just buy raw materials and leave but help producers getting an idea of the work they do and the importance of the work being done,« he continued the whole factory focuses on processing the açaí As it’s a very sensitive fruit the steps need to happen quickly so that the berries are not spoiled »After the product arrives at the factory it is evaluated by the quality control team The oil goes through a quality assessment process before refinement and then the oil is bottled and leaves as a finished product to customers around the world,« explains Thiago Galvao Açaí berries contain abundant antioxidants which make them a powerful natural ingredient in high-performing and sustainable cosmetics In addition to Beraca’s ethical sourcing commitment and close collaboration with local farmers and communities as part of its dedication to a sustainable supply chain the objective of zero waste is extremely important Clariant makes use of as much of the açaí raw material as possible The vegetable oil is extracted from the pulp as is the anthocyanin active ingredient to be able to manufacture the extracts With the cake formed from the pulp Beraca creates natural scrubs All these incorporate the concepts of upcycling and zero waste »We work with the açaí berries from when they are picked until the final product therefore we have an entire quality control process for this raw material from the moment of receipt to when it leaves the factory With this we have internal certification processes focused on good manufacturing practices that ensure that the entire production process is effective and safe,« said Karla Magnago Once the açaí oil has been extracted from the pulp it goes through quality assessment processes Outside the factory and back in the rainforest the Beraca biodiversity team works with local communities to support the health of the forest and the well-being of the people living in the region »It’s a relationship that transcends economics and includes social and environmental aspects,« says Galvao »In the end we offer Beraca’s natural açaí products in a sustainable way guaranteeing that the forest stays standing.« Watch the video with insights on the açai harvest collaborates with the communities and our production facility processing the fruit until the final cosmetic ingredients: The Association of residents and rural producers of Nazarezinho do Rio Meruú and stands as the first legally constituted association dedicated to work with açaí in the municipality of Igarapé-Miri The association has become essential in the commercialization of non-timber products as the cooperative sells mainly to industries with guarantee of purchase and a fair price negotiation The relationship with Beraca began in 2009 with the sale of açai berries but the successful partnership opened doors to the supply of other species as well Production diversification is important for expanding the income of riverside population who are able to harvest the fruits in different periods of the year AMPRUNAM currently supplies Beraca with organic açaí for the production of the ingredients: Beraca Açai Oil Organic Beraca Açai Scrub Organic and Beraca Triple A Organic Brazil - March 2023 - In communion with the Youth Sector of the Archdiocese of Belém celebrated the relaunch of the Oratories and Parishes Project the Salesian work in Ananindeua restarted the activities of its oratory The oratory opened its doors to all young people guided in the activities by the team of animators and members of the Salesian Youth Movement (SYM) Council and also accompanied for the occasion by Msgr animators from the Ananindeua Oratory will lead youth activities every Wednesday at Our Lady of Grace Parish ANS - “Agenzia iNfo Salesiana” is a on-line almost daily publication the communication agency of the Salesian Congregation enrolled in the Press Register of the Tibunal of Rome as n 153/2007 This site also uses third-party cookies to improve user experience and for statistical purposes By scrolling through this page or by clicking on any of its elements Brazil— “We are not even getting access to the basic necessities,” says Raimundo Magno the leader of the Africa quilombola community in Moju Magno’s complaint points to the abandonment felt in the quilombolas communities of descendants of Africans brought to Brazil as enslaved laborers The sense they’ve been deserted is brought about by the lack of help by the absence of specific health policies and by the scarcity of official statistics tabulating the number of COVID-19 cases entities and leaders are arguing in court for the state to recognize the historic vulnerability of the population which the appearance of the new coronavirus in their territories has accentuated He summarizes the general context of the quilombola communities confronting the threat brought by COVID-19 The ways in which these groups—which trace their roots and resistance back to the period of colonial slavery—survive are guided by their direct relation with nature and the selling of surplus catches and crops The need for isolation unbalanced the families’ income: the products of their labor were lost as was the storage for future months of sustenance member of the National Board for the Coordination and Connection of Rural Black Quilombola Communities (CONAQ) explains that with the new dynamics imposed by the pandemic there are about six million people living in quilombolas in Brazil “Our communities are often near large mining and agribusiness enterprises or near baths and beaches and once again we had to fight to protect our territories,” Givânia asserts To guarantee the minimum of security and isolation some communities called for the construction of improvised barriers but many of these appeals were not successful facing strong internal and external resistance from workers and businesspeople Teams formed by community members worked around the clock to keep outsiders out or to try to convince relatives not to leave their houses for the cities If they could not convince them to stay home from donations from organizations and partners “We had to really struggle to get anything from the state and it did not cover even a fifth of what we asked for,” Magno explains As a member of the State Coordination of Surviving Quilombo Community Associations (Malungu) he was at the front line of the struggle for the rights of the quilombola communities in Pará state there is a purpose in the way they treat our people it’s called ‘necropolitics,’” Magno reveals according to the Black intellectual Achille Mbembe expresses the power of the State to decide who lives and who dies in a society Without knowing if they are infected or not people turn entire communities inside out to convalesce from fever they take care of themselves and their sick The situation tends to get even more dramatic considering the advance of new variants on the national pandemic scene and the delay in vaccinating the Brazilian people added to the structural uncertainties of the public health network faced with the exponential growth of cases during the so-called “second wave.” In the communities the best way to neutralize the damage caused by the pandemic was to return to plant medicine remedies and traditional wisdom The abandonment of quilombola populations is nothing new what the pandemia did was worsen the already desperate situation in our territories President of the Association of Quilombola Africa Dwellers professor in the anthropology department of the Federal University of Pará and member of the Brazilian Association of Collective Health (ABRASCO) the vulnerable situation of the majority of quilombola communities throughout the country is second only to that of the Indigenous villages The parallel drawn by the professor is in relation to the sanitary conditions and the alimentary vulnerability of the population that can be related to environmental and genetic factors sound the alarm for specialists and leaders who are fighting for guarantees during the crisis caused by the pandemic “It is as if we have to continue to fight for the end of the slavery of our people There is no data about the quilombola population in the official statistics. The 2020 census, which was to be the first to include data about the remaining communities of quilombos spread across the nation, needed to be postponed because of the pandemic. This ended by influencing the order of priorities of the National Plan of Operationalization of the Vaccination against Covid-19 which did not count the quilombola population among the immunized groups in the three primary vaccination phases The justification offered by the Ministry of Health for the quilombolas not being in the primary immunization phases along with Indigenous people and riverbank-dwellers who were vaccinated in the first phase was the absence of data about the population—something that could have been rectified by the ministry with the support of the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE) quilombola vaccination is scheduled for the fourth phase of immunization along with teachers and public safety professionals but which still has no scheduled start date some states intend to postpone immunizing quilombola communities because of action taken by the Federal Public Ministry (MPF) The lack of data has also compromised the combat against the pandemic in the quilombola territories There is no official data on the number of people contaminated and deceased as a consequence of COVID-19 in the territories like the Socio-Environmental Institute (ISA) and the Federal University of Western Pará (UFOPA) have begun to quantify disease tabulation in an autonomous manner first on the national level and then on the regional they count on an information network they have established with base community associations which supply daily information via telephone or WhatsApp (when there is internet) The ISA maintains an observatory in partnership with CONAQ, Quilombos Without Covid-19 which centralizes the national estimates about cases of the disease among the groups has made every effort to compute the number of cases in Pará the state that has registered the highest number of quilombolas who have died of COVID-19 The data is gathered and transformed into a bulletin which appears daily on the telephones of the quilombola population of Pará Brazil had registered 4,926 confirmed cases of the disease among quilombolas Pará state has a quilombola population of 6,000 people of which 37% are estimated to have been infected by COVID-19 2,238 cases of the virus have been confirmed in quilombolas and 2,175 are suspected although none of them have had any medical treatment since the start of the pandemic Pará was at the head of the quilombos’ COVID mortality list with 62 not “final numbers,” explains Givânia da Silva and lack of communication all make contact with communities in various regions of the country difficult president of the Ivaporunduva quilombola community in Eldorado says that many people have fallen ill but no one can confirm how many are infected with the novel coronavirus because the 110 families who live in the quilombo have not been tested “The support we had was from non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and they came just once with boxes of food and hygiene kits,” Carlos recalls Collaborating on this article were Adriana Abreu and Sam Schramski. Translated for People’s World by Peter Lownds. The original publication can be seen here collaborator of the Amazônia Real Agency of Independent and Investigative Journalism He also worked for the Danish broadcaster DR1 Lula da Silva: multilateralismo y cooperación internacional como respuesta al cambio... Brasil: Mujeres indígenas y del MST defienden territorio de la etnia... After cashing in on tax break incentives, developer brings unaffordable housing... ‘Sinners’ review: Horror, history, and Black American folklore combine for trailblazing cinema  Amidst capitalist crisis and war, Russian Communists struggle against Putin and the oligarchs More than 250,000 turn out nationwide on May Day Big changes in the Catholic liturgy The same depleted uranium munitions that poisoned Iraq now headed to Ukraine São Paulo, July 3, 2024 – What could be more Brazilian than loving your idol so very much that you use the birth of your child to pay tribute to them? In Brazil, in addition to being an actor and a comedian, Eddie Murphy is a football player in Maceió (AL), a logistics assistant in Curitiba (PR), an industrial painter in Novo Horizonte (SP), a musician in Campo Grande (MS), and a delivery man in Ananindeua (PA). To celebrate the return of the movie franchise and the character who has left his mark on several generations, five Eddie Murphys "Made in Brazil"" are about to prove that there are no fans in the world like Brazilian fans! Beverly Hills Cop 4: Axel F premieres today, July 3, only on Netflix. EDDIE MURPHY DA SILVA, 20-YEARS OLD, MACEIÓ (AL) Eddie Murphy da Silva, who has played for teams such as Fortaleza, Vitória and Figueirense, was given his name by his father, a fan of the comedian. What's more, Eddie says that when he was baptized, the priest found his name so odd that he almost refused to go through with the ceremony. EDDIE MURPHY MARCELINO BARBOSA, 30-YEARS OLD, CURITIBA (PR) His parents were inspired by the Eddie Murphy movie that was playing at the time they went to register his birth. EDDIE MOURPHY DE ABREU VIEIRA, 35-YEARS OLD, NOVO HORIZONTE (SP) Torn between the names Luis Henrique and Luis Fernando, his parents were on their way to the registry office when they happened to see a poster featuring the actor, of whom they are fans. EDDIE MURPHY FRANKLYN DA SILVA, 32-YEARS OLD, CAMPO GRANDE (MS) Born four years after the release of Beverly Hills Cop 2, Eddie Murphy Franklyn da Silva owes his name to the movie franchise. The musician teaches wind instruments at his church and even plays the theme song on the trumpet. EDDIE MURPHY FARIAS NASCIMENTO, 24-YEARS OLD, ANANINDEUA (PA) His name was going to be Felipe, but his father, a big Eddie Murphy fan, decided to pay tribute to the actor by naming his son — who also became a fan of the comedian — Eddie Murphy Farias Nascimento. Isabela Baiochi | isabela.baiochi@agora.site Founded in 1936, the Evandro Chagas Institute produces world-leading research on infectious and parasitic diseases and environmental issues The environmental incident earlier this year is just one of many that SAMAM has been tasked with investigating. Created in 1992 by virologist Elisabeth de Oliveira Santos, SAMAM is the youngest of the eight scientific departments that make up the institute—the most important center for research and treatment of tropical diseases and for environmental health in the Amazon. IEC Evandro Chagas (at the microscope) This department was one of the first to be set up at the IEC campus in Ananindeua The 70-hectare compound houses nearly 30 laboratories operated by seven of the institute’s eight research departments as well as healthcare departments where nearly 25,000 medical tests are performed and 4,700 diagnoses of tropical diseases are made every year Located on the BR-316 interstate highway—which stretches from Belém to Maceió the state capital of Alagoas—the campus also hosts an associate program in medical testing and three graduate programs: a master’s degree program in epidemiology and health surveillance and a master’s and doctorate program in virology The Hepatitis Department is the only department remaining at the original IEC building an old mansion in Belém at 492 Avenida Almirante Barroso It was there in 1936 that Evandro Chagas (1905–1940) a 31-year-old physician and researcher from Rio de Janeiro set up Brazil’s first center for health research in the Amazon: the North Institute for Experimental Pathology (IPEN) had identified the first cases of visceral leishmaniasis originating in Brazil With support from the Rockefeller Foundation Penna had investigated cases of yellow fever in Bahia analyzing a total 47,000 slides containing liver tissue samples In 41 samples that were negative for the yellow fever virus he found the parasite causing visceral leishmaniasis which was then thought to be transmitted only in India and the Mediterranean Most cases were in the Northeast and North of Brazil Penna reported in the journal Brasil Médico in November 1934 The then director of the Oswaldo Cruz Institute in Rio de Janeiro who discovered the disease bearing his name organized a commission to investigate leishmaniasis cases in Brazil Irene Almeida Slides from the IEC Leishmaniasis Laboratory’s Phlebotomine CollectionIrene Almeida IEC An aerial view of the IEC campus in AnanindeuaIEC The Department of Arbovirology and Hemorrhagic Fevers which accounts for a majority of the almost 80 scientific articles published by IEC researchers in the last two years has two laboratories with a biosafety level 3 rating—one below the highest protection rating—used for handling potentially lethal infectious agents It was at one of these labs that in 2015 the Zika virus was first isolated in the brain of an infant with microcephaly (see interview on page 28) A laboratory dedicated to animal experiments has tested a Zika vaccine developed by researchers at the IEC and the University of Texas and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine funded grants for parasitologists Ralph Lainson (1927–2015) and Jeffrey Jon Shaw to initiate research on cutaneous leishmaniasis in Brazil causes skin lesions and can destroy mucous membranes and cartilage The IEC also does research on other diseases caused by viruses and breeds approximately 25,000 rodents each year for use in disease research and in preclinical trials at Brazilian research centers the IEC has also hosted the National Primate Center (CENP) where 25 native ape species from the Americas and one from Africa are kept for conservation and research purposes the institute is funded out of an annual budget of around R$70 million provided by the Ministry of Health Another R$40 million is sourced from state and federal funding agencies for research During Pesquisa FAPESP’s visit to the IEC in September this year a leishmaniasis expert and deputy director at the institute expressed concerns about the institution’s future The institute has around 100 researchers and 500 staff It receives an annual budget of R$110 million and research activities have all increased in recent years so has the risk that the institution could soon face a shortage of trained staff Between 25% and 30% of researchers and staff are old enough to retire and the most recent competitive examination for new hires was organized almost 10 years ago but were able to hire about 300 people,” says Silveira “We would need another 200 to keep up with the current pace of work.” This year it secured R$2 million in funding to renovate the Almirante Barroso mansion After a complicated bidding process for the works the problems seem to have been left behind within the next few years the original IEC building will become home to the Evandro Chagas Museum © Revista Pesquisa FAPESP - All rights reserved (ANS – Rome) – As part of the work of the 2023 General Council summer plenary session with the consent of the other members of his Council currently Vice-Provincial of the same Province as the next Superior of the Province of Manaus Fr Philippe Bauzière was born in Tournai He did his Salesian novitiate at the house in Woluwe-Saint-Lambert (Brussels) and made his first profession In 1994 he arrived for the first time in Brazil in Manaus where he made his perpetual profession on 5 August the following year He was ordained deacon in Ananindeua on 15 November 1997 and on 28 June 1998 he was ordained priest at the cathedral in his hometown His first years as a priest were spent in the Salesian house in Alvorada first as parish priest and then as Rector (2007-2008) In the following years he lived in Belém São Gabriel de Cachoeira and Ananindeua From 2013-2018 he was in Manicore as Parish Priest and Rector where he accompanies the Salesian School of Work Since 2019 he has been part of the Provincial Council where he has held various positions of responsibility: from 2021 he has been Vice-Provincial and also Provincial Delegate for the Salesian Family and for Formation Fr Bauzière will succeed Fr Jefferson Luís da Silva Santos who will conclude his six-year term as Superior of the Province of Manaus The West Nile fever virus was isolated in Brazil for the first time in April this year by researchers at the Evandro Chagas Institute (IEC) a nonprofit research organization based in Ananindeua Transmitted by mosquitos of the Culex genus the virus was extracted from the neurological tissue of a horse that died on a farm in the municipality of São Mateus technicians from the state’s Institute of Agricultural and Forestry Defense collected tissue samples from the animal and sent them to the IEC Genome sequencing identified it as the same strain that has been found in Argentina suggesting that it is spreading throughout the Americas possibly by infected migratory birds (Memórias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz The first signs that the virus had arrived in Brazil were discovered in 2009 when specific antibodies were found in the blood of horses and chickens in the Pantanal West Nile antibodies were identified in the blood of animals in the Northeast and in 2015 they were found in the blood of a man suffering paralysis and other symptoms of the virus which causes an infection that affects the central nervous system The current vaccine is for animal use only Most humans infected with the virus suffer symptoms similar to dengue fever which affects the nerves and leads to paralysis and Supply issued a statement recommending increased livestock surveillance to help identify animals displaying symptoms of the disease nationwide Correctional agents reportedly launched grenades and beat up inmates in a Pará women's prison The inmates of the Female Re-education Center of Ananindeua were awakened at 4 a.m on September 4th by men of the Prison Intervention Task Force (FTIP) for their first operation in the penitentiary The facilities are located in the metro area of Belém The agents launched grenades inside the cells and fired pepper spray against the inmates The women were then forced to strip down to their underwear they were forced to sit down on the ground with their hands behind their heads having baton blows delivered to their legs and arms The whole time they were forced to remain in that position the women were deprived of water and received only one meal around 5 p.m The FTIP — called after a massacre in a men’s prison in Altamira, Pará, where 58 people died — also kept 80 female inmates in one cell There are reports of inmates who passed out from the abuse and were awakened with pepper spray “You are going to die,” the agents threatened them The women wore nothing but their underwear for the next two days the same kind of treatment suffered by the inmates in Altamira who were forced to wear nothing but their underwear for one week after the riot The women spent seven days without being able to maintain their personal hygiene The food they received was going off or raw or undercooked and they had to drink untreated tap water There are reports of inmates who had their period and their uniforms were stained because they didn’t have sanitary pads The human rights violations described are part of the Prison Inspection Report that investigated the conditions of the inmates of the Ananindeua Female Re-education Center The report was produced by the Human Rights Commission of Brazil’s Bar Association in Pará and was disclosed on Sep and punches are common among the inmates as they recall the FTIP men’s practices Most respondents had signs of bruises on their arms and legs and some had marks suggesting they were dragged on the floor Inmates reported mistreatment by correctional officers who forced them to be completely naked for hours | Photo: Human Rights Commission of Brazil’s Bar Association in Pará The task force composed of federal correctional officers was authorized by Brazil’s Justice minister approving a request by Pará governor Helder Barbalho The operation was originally scheduled to last 30 days The agents were supposed to take over guarding but the reports in the Ananindeua prison show there have been cases of torture and violations of human rigthts The Bar report was produced after the organization visited the facilities on Sep The women had bruises and rashes from contact with pepper spray which were the parts of their bodies that were exposed while they sat on the floor for approximately five hours with their hands behind their heads receiving baton blows and not being able to have any kind of reaction The Human Rights Commission (CDH) requested that 64 women should be taken to a local medical examiner’s office to be examined The Pará State Prison System Office released a statement arguing that the medical evidence did not show signs of torture or any other kind of violence against the inmates said however there is no doubt that the women were consistently subjected to physical violence and that the way they are examined is ineffective He adds the fact that the medical examinations were conducted over than one week after the reported assaults “The medical reports show there are wounds But they [the doctors who conduct the examinations] are not trained to say that for sure and some wounds were more than eight days old,” Vieira argues Inmates reported mistreatment by correctional officers who forced them to be completely naked for hours | Photo: Human Rights Commission of Brazil’s Bar Association in Pará  a lawyer and member of Brazil’s Bar in Pará state said the inspection they conducted was only allowed based on a court decision as the state’s prison system claims that there are no cases of torture in its facilities “We were able to investigate several cases of assault They suffer psychological and physical torture There is a pattern of physical wounds that are the result of the security procedures in place,” he says There are reports of women with itchy skin None of the cases has been examined by the prison’s medical team Vieira said the agents went as far as forcing the inmates to sit on an ant hill in one of the prison wards “Inmates in their underwear are forced to sit on ant hills They have rashes on their buttocks from the ant bites I have taken part in many inspections in men’s prisons and have seen poor conditions but this time I was truly negatively impacted It’s really a haunting situation.” All original content produced and editorially 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and her photo “Valeria Canavieiras Farm in Bahia - Cacao Plantation” won the 2nd prize with the picture “Yellow ipe tree on Itaguaje Road” The winner of the category Housing was Micaele Dias Santos who took the photo “Little House in the Batata Village” Jaqueline Raissa Lopes Vieira was in second place with the photo “Rural permanent private housing unit in Teresina The third prize of this category went to “The Conquest” © 2018 IBGE - Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatística Nós utilizamos cookies para melhorar sua experiência de navegação no portal. 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Members of the Warao indigenous community seek more autonomy and to be consulted about decisions affecting them - Catarina Barbosa/Brasil de Fato the Warao have guaranteed rights established through a series of legal norms These documents affirm that they should be consulted about their own destinies This is the reason why in the state of Pará, many of them choose to live outside the shelter offered by the municipality even if it means being unemployed and living in a precarious situation Benícia Torrez Pérez lives in the Tapanã neighborhood a poor area on the outskirts of Belém The home has four wooden rooms and is raised on stilts The community has no sanitation infrastructure and when it rains the area floods and water with sewage and trash spills into the dwellings Benícia says she has been in Pará for two years The location has a high crime rate and they have been robbed four times since moving there In the Outeiro district of Belém, other Warao families live as renters. The indigenous community faces many difficulties where they live they barely have enough money to buy food to eat they also say that life in the shelter is “very difficult” Jorge Zapata and another 17 people live in tiny houses with no windows and electric bills as high as 150 dollars per month he says that he wouldn’t like to leave since his son has mental problems and cannot get along well with others while admitting that he would like to receive more support from the government our news team visited around 60 Warao families living in the Jardim Cidadania shanty town also in the Belém metropolitan region who are happy where they are and don’t intend on returning to the shelter is that the area resembles their homes in Venezuela “Our ancestors always lived in harmony with nature and that’s why our history has always been profoundly intertwined with rivers where we traditionally build homes on stilts in the lower Orinoco River delta” Though possessing some similarities with their homeland due to being on the banks of the Maguari river, there is no sanitation the electricity grid is improvised and only two housing lots in the community actually belong to the Warao The were donated by one of the area’s residents and initially housed only six families “I hope they legalize all the lots here for everybody we just want the right to keep on living” while proudly showing us the community he helped build that he fears the land they are on will remain unregulated because he has no faith in the municipality and knows he may not be able to remain there “The mayor’s office keeps telling us they’re going to make a deal but we don’t know when that’s going to happen Brasil de Fato contacted the local municipality to clarify exactly what sort of assistance the indigenous refugees are being offered There was no response until the publishing of this piece “The government can’t consult only at the last minute when it has already made a decision that will affect our people” The quote is featured in the Warao Information which was created by the Federal Public Ministry (MPF) The document was written by the indigenous community members themselves, and is a way of preventing Human Rights abuses: “We don’t want to be exploited, nor marginalized. We don’t want to be treated badly, we want our people and culture to be respected” The autonomous social and political decision making process of native populations in the Universal Declaration of Indigenous Rights the American Declaration of Indigenous Peoples’ Rights by Brazilian migration and refugee laws and lastly by emergency assistance measures established to assist those in vulnerable situations due to humanitarian crisis caused migration 43,000+ global companies doing business in the region 102,000+ key contacts related to companies and projects news and interviews about your industry in English