BellingenNSW · @Bellingen
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When the allows to take over the

'Loggers, Miners and Corruption in a 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.”

theguardian.com/environment/20

#state #organisedcrime #rainforest #lawless #violence #environment #crime #logging #mining #indigenouscommunities #publicsecurity #biodiversity #deforestation #colombianisation #extractivism #outofcontrol

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