Counselor heard at the CPI compares the performance of NGOs to a “green gas chamber”

The CPI of the NGOs heard this Tuesday (4) the counselor of the environmental provision area “Triunfo do Xingu”, in Pará, Marcelo Norkey Duarte Pereira. During the session, he compared the environmental policy of the organizations investigated by the collegiate to a “green gas chamber”.

Pereira showed a video of people who live in the Estação Ecológica da Terra do Meio community, in the Amazon region, demanding more schools and health. “These are victims of this environmental policy [das ONGs], there is like a green gas chamber. These people were enraptured by this environmental policy, which we call the empty box environmental policy”, said the councilor.

“If international resources are sent and this resource does not arrive… It cannot bring food, because, unfortunately, what we in the Amazon live and the satellite does not see, which only sees deforestation, burning, but does not see our reality”, he said.

The CPI investigates the use of resources received from abroad by NGOs from 2002 to January 1, 2023. “The forest is a fodder of poverty and misery. This is the reality of the land in the middle. low in Amapá, for example. And it is one of the states that has the most forests. To say that the bioeconomy will bring environmental and sustainable socioeconomic results, that is utopia”, said Pereira.

The counselor avoided specifying the name of the NGOs to the parliamentarians for fear of persecution. “The NGOs have guaranteed employment. We don’t have. They have become employers and proliferate,” he said.

The chief of Bragança village, in Santarém, Pará, Miguel dos Santos Correa, stated that he faces persecution and lawsuits for defending the emancipation of communities in relation to NGOs.

“We don’t recognize relatives because they sold themselves in exchange for a basic food basket. If we own the forests, why do we have to be governed by others? The NGOs arrived in our region with a sweet talk, creating a booklet here to teach how it would be to our life inside the forest, saying wonders to the people, while the sustainable management plan they talked about was a timber management plan”, said Correa.

The indigenous leader Luciene Kujãesage Kayabi also defended the independence of the people of the region. “We want to plant, to live from our land, from our sweat. I would really like to understand this mental complexity, backward, that says that agroindigenous is poison, that says that agroindigenous is not going to bring life. The agroindigenous that plants what it puts on the table of you the daily bread, which sustains each one of us, is what brought life to humanity. We never stopped feeding on products that come from the agro”, he said.