AMERICA/BRAZIL - Conflicts over land, water, work: they often do not find space in the media

Brasilia (Agenzia Fides) - The annual report prepared by the Pastoral Land Commission (CPT) registered 1,768 conflicts in 2021, 13.92% less than in 2020. These are situations related to land, water and labor rights, which in Brazil directly or indirectly involve 897,335 people.
According to information released by CELAM, the report was presented on April 18 at the headquarters of the Brazilian Episcopal Conference (CNBB), by the Secretary General of the CNBB, Msgr. Joel Portella Amado, by the President of the CPT, Msgr. José Ionilton Lisboa de Oliveira and by representatives of the CPT, indigenous peoples, rural populations and organizations linked to the Agrarian Reform.
During this presentation, it was pointed out that the core of the conflicts over land and water that are registered today in Brazil is found in the Amazon, which registered 641 conflicts over land in 2021 (49.49% of the total), 124 conflicts for water and 54 cases of slave labor. Indigenous peoples are one of the most affected groups, in particular the Yanomami people, whose territory has been seriously attacked by illegal mining. According to the report, 109 deaths were recorded in the Yanomami Indigenous Land as a result of conflicts with illegal miners in 2021, an increase of 1,110%. Of the total, 101 deaths were recorded in the state of Roraima.
The President of the CPT, founded in 1975, reiterated: "we were born and exist to take care of life ... so often threatened by savage capitalism, agribusiness, illegal logging and mining". The CPT is close to families "expressing its solidarity, to encourage, protect, but also to help make known what is happening and that does not always find space in the media", insisted Mgr. José Ionilton, who also wanted to recall the importance of the influence of politics in the bills that threaten and harm the little ones for the benefit of those who already have the capital. This situation has worsened in recent years, according to the bishop, who has remembered the victims of the struggle for land in Brazil. (SL) (Agenzia Fides, 20/4/2022)

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