One thing is omission due to incompetence, another is omission as a project. The Jair Bolsonaro government systematically denied food to the Yanomami who were starving, as shown by documents revealed by Carlos Madeiro, on UOL, this Sunday (12). This reinforces the implementation of a project to facilitate the exploitation of their indigenous land by miners.
In other words: if the former president had been successful in his bid for re-election, the Yanomami would now be on the way to extinction. If denying food to a starving people while allowing invaders to carry disease does not qualify as genocide, then Justice lives in the same pocketverse as Jair’s followers.
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The documents revealed by Madeiro were sent between June 2021 and March 2022 to the Ministries of Justice and Citizenship, asking for food and warning of the hunger of these people. They didn’t get a proper answer.
Proof of this were the 570 children aged up to five killed in the last four years, according to a survey by the Sumaúma portal, and another 100 this year, according to the government.
While putting into practice his project to “clean up” the Yanomami Indigenous Land in order to guarantee comfort for his electoral base, Bolsonaro denied the existence of hunger.
“Has anyone ever seen someone asking for bread at the door, at the bakery cashier? You don’t see it,” he told Jovem Pan on August 26 last year. Later, in an interview with the Ironberg Podcast, she reinforced the argument. “Hunger in Brazil? Hunger for real. It doesn’t exist the way it is said”, he said, stating again that the Auxílio Brasil prevents people from getting into this situation.
He tried to make believe that it was a lie that hunger had risen from 19 million at the end of 2020 to 33.1 million at the beginning of 2022, according to a survey by Vox Populi commissioned by the Brazilian Network for Research in Sovereignty and Food and Nutritional Security. He tortured the data that didn’t smile at him, just as he did with the deforested area in the Amazon or the deaths from covid-19.
Hunger as a project had a genocidal face among the Yanomami, but it was present throughout the country. Concerned about guaranteeing resources to buy his re-election, Bolsonaro braked or interrupted programs that guarantee food security for Brazilians.
And there was no lack of indicators. In September 2022, 977,000 children and adolescents were diagnosed with malnutrition in primary health care, according to another article by Carlos Madeiro, on UOL. In August, there were 136 thousand. In 2015, 27 thousand.
In this project, the Bolsonaro government managed to remove milk from poor children in two ways last year: it saw the product accumulate pornographic inflation and instead of increasing its donation to minimize the damage, it did exactly the opposite. The free delivery of milk to families in extreme poverty in the Northeast and Minas Gerais was reduced by 87%.
The Bolsonaro project for indigenous people was not something small, but giant, permeating ministries and institutions. Thus, the amount of evidence produced by his administration against itself was large. Documents like these will continue to appear, fueling Federal Police investigations into genocide.
It is hoped that, in the end, if the Brazilian Justice embraces the let-go group, deliberately closing its eyes to this, that the International Criminal Court, in The Hague, will not do the same.