When the #State allows #OrganisedCrime to take over the #Rainforest
'Loggers, Miners and Corruption in a #Lawless Amazon'. “We will have criminal insurgents … [whose] ideology is money...The mafia goes wherever there’s money. It doesn’t care if it’s environmental crime, people smuggling, cocaine. And what they see there [in the Amazon] is gold and wood that’s being sold for a very high price. It’s obvious that it wouldn’t take them long to get involved in this.”
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jun/01/brazil-amazon-crime-dom-phillips-bruno-pereira
#Violence #Environment #Crime #Logging #Mining #IndigenousCommunities #PublicSecurity #Biodiversity #Deforestation #Colombianisation #Extractivism #OutOfControl
#state #organisedcrime #rainforest #lawless #violence #environment #crime #logging #mining #indigenouscommunities #publicsecurity #biodiversity #deforestation #colombianisation #extractivism #outofcontrol