Furious response from some senators

Sun, 17 Jul 2005 10:37:46 +0100

Watching \"TV Camara\", the Brazilian government television, I witnessed the furious response to this project from some senators, particulary those representing the states where the biggest damage\'s being made to Brazilian forests. It is not known outside Brazil perhaps that, these same politicians usually hold ownership of vast areas in those same forests and prohibition goes against their own private interests. Their lame excuse is that people in those areas need employment and \"progress\". The reality is far from that. Owning vast areas of land what really lies behind, is the desire to transform those areas into multi million soy crop plantations to stuff those same politicians pockets. There is a detail: once used, the land becomes unproductive and the jobs needed to local people (that is, according to these greedy group) is performed by machines. Let\'s not forget what happened to Sister Dorothy when she fought against the interests of those Powerful land Lords, behind all the agressivness and impunity of paid gunmen in those regions is the hand of some rotten politician. - Guest

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Furious response from some senators