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Bolsonaro’s ‘surrender of Amazon to crooks played role in murders of Phillips and Pereira’

Brazilian president’s dismantling of environmental safeguards partly to blame, says politician leading inquiry

Jair Bolsonaro’s demolition of Brazil’s Indigenous and environmental protection services and “surrender of the Amazon to crooks” played a direct role in the murders of Dom Phillips and Bruno Pereira, the politician leading a congressional inquiry into the crime has claimed.

One month after the British journalist and Brazilian Indigenous advocate were killed on the River Itaquaí, three men are in custody: two local fishermen and a third man called Jeferson da Silva Lima.

Federal police initially ruled out the involvement of a more powerful criminal mastermind in a lawless region at the heart of South America’s drug trade, although investigators are examining whether the crime was an ordered assassination.

Whatever the truth, the politician spearheading a senate investigation into the killings claimed Brazil’s far-right president also bore significant blame for having crippled the protection agencies that might have kept the men safe during their trip into the remote Javari Valley region.

“The government is a direct accomplice and participant in the murders of both men,” said Randolfe Rodrigues, an opposition senator from the Amazon state of Amapá.

“The Bolsonaro government’s policy of dismantling and destructuring [Indigenous and environmental safeguards] is directly responsible for the point the Javari Valley has reached.”

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Luís Roberto & Randolfe Rodrigues

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Fabiano Contarato & Randolfe Rodrigues

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So, in Brazilian odd political coincidences news, senator Rose de Freitas (Democratic Brazilian Movement party - MDB) has received R$ 2.9 million (~US$ 620,000) in amendments three days before removing her signature from a request for parliamentary investigation on possible corruption schemes in Brazil's Ministry of Education.

Such amendment, for now reserved in the budget, represents the third largest single parliamentary amendment of 2022 and, if approved, will be the largest amount disbursed by the government at her request in the last seven years. The amount will be used to build a municipal market in the city Sooretama, in the interior of of the coastal Southeastern state of Espírito Santo. In the last year of her term as senator, Rose de Freitas tries to gain a foothold as a pre-candidate for the state government by her party.

Rose de Freitas said that her signature appeared without her authorization on one of the lists for the Parliamentary Commission of Inquiry (CPI). She said her request to remove it had nothing to do with the amendment. The petitioner, Randolfe Rodrigues (from the Network party), retorted Rose de Freitas' statements and presented documents that show that the inclusion of her name in the list of signatures was made by the senator herself, as was the new document requesting its removal.

Over the second weekend of April 2022, Senators Oriovisto Guimarães (We Can party), Styvenson Valentim (We Can party) and Weverton Rocha (Democratic Labour Party - PDT) withdrew their signatures for the installation of a CPI to investigate possible irregularities in the Ministry of Education, also known as MEC. Without their support, the request is left with 24 signatures – missing three to reach the minimum necessary to proceed with the process of opening investigations.

The scandal, which was dubbed 'Bolsolão do MEC' (loosely translated as "Bolsonaro's corruption scandal of the Education Ministry"), refers to an audio of the then minister Milton Ribeiro saying that municipalities with mayors close to Evangelical Pastor Gilmar Santos would have priority in their demands. “My priority is to first serve the municipalities that need it most and, secondly, to serve all those who are friends of Gilmar.”, the voice identified as Ribeiro’s said in the recording. He added that this was “a special request of the president of the Republic.” One said pastor, Reverend Arilton Moura, even asked for a kilogram of gold in addition to about $3,000 in exchange for funding of schools and nurseries, according to Mayor Gilberto Braga of the city of Luis Domingues. In a statement to the Federal Police, Ribeiro confirmed the authorship of the audio, but stated that the recording was taken out of context.

The Federal Police opened two investigations to investigate alleged irregularities in the release of funds from the National Fund for the Development of Education (FNDE), an agency linked to the Ministry of Education. The first of them was opened at the Superintendence of the Federal Police in the Federal District and will investigate the suspicions pointed out in a report by the Comptroller General of the Union (CGU) on distributions of funds from the FNDE. The other investigation was launched at the agency's headquarters, in the sector that handles inquiries that are being processed in the Federal Supreme Court (STF), and targets Minister Milton Ribeiro based on the audio.

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Brazilian lawmakers abruptly withdrew a plan to charge Bolsonaro with mass homicide and genocide over COVID-19 deaths

[Image description: President Jair Bolsonaro gestures as he delivers a speech in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on September 01, 2021.]

Lawmakers in Brazil have suddenly scrapped a plan recommending that President Jair Bolsonaro be charged with genocide and mass homicide, according to CNN Brasil.

For the past six months, the Brazilian Senate Pandemic Parliamentary Inquiry has been investigating whether Bolsonaro is responsible for the deaths of more than 300,000 Brazilians who have died from COVID-19.

In total, around 600,000 Brazilians have died from the disease during the pandemic.

Throughout the pandemic, Bolsonaro has repeatedly played down the dangers posed by the coronavirus, mocked masks, and cast doubt over the vaccine. He has also been criticized for his decision not to enforce lockdowns when the virus surged.

Citing a leaked copy of the senate report, the New York Times reported Tuesday that the inquiry was set to recommend that Bolsonaro be charged with mass homicide and genocide.

However, late on Tuesday, Sen. Omar Aziz, the president of the COVID-19 parliamentary commission of inquiry, said the group would drop the recommended genocide charge because there was no clear consensus between lawmakers, CNN Brasil reported.

Shortly after, Sen. Randolfe Rodrigues, another senior member of the inquiry, said that the "mass murder" charge was also being scrapped, CNN Brasil reported.

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