Brazil will send troops from the National Security Force, an elite police force, to the state of Amazonas to combat drug trafficking and environmental crimes, the main problems in this vast region of the country, according to the decision published this Friday in the Official Gazette. of the Unit.
The National Force will act for 90 days in regions of the Negro and Solimões rivers that have become one of the main routes for international drug trafficking and environmental crimes, such as fishing, poaching and illegal mining.
The state of Amazonas has become a gateway for drugs from Colombia and Peruwhich increased crime in the region and put hundreds of indigenous ethnic groups living in this state at risk.
The risks and pressures to which the indigenous peoples are subjected was one of the research objects of Dom Phillips, who together with Bruno Araújo Pereira, one of the main indigenists in Brazil and the greatest experts in the Vale do Javari region, where are the largest number of uncontacted Indians in the world.
Both have been missing since Sunday morning, when they should have returned to the city of Atalaia do Norte after visiting several riverside communities in the region.
The mystery and controversy of the disappearance of the British journalist and expert on indigenous people of the Amazon. Dead or lost?
Police have arrested a 41-year-old man who may be linked to the disappearance and is investigating the presence of blood stains on his boat, although they do not rule out that they may be from an animal.
As authorities continue their investigations, international pressure continues to mount for the Brazilian government to redouble its efforts in the search for Bishop Phillips and Bruno Araújo Pereira.
The United Nations Organization (UN) denounced the lack of information on the disappearance and criticized the “extremely slow” response of the government headed by Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro.
Source: Observadora
