“Drug dealers, land grabbers and criminals have Elon Musk’s antenna”, says Wilson Lima

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The forecast was to serve 19,000 schools, but only three have been contemplated to date.

The governor of Amazonas, Wilson Lima (União Brasil), in a meeting with governors of the North region, in Cuiabá, this Friday (16), made an outburst about billionaire Elon Musk’s investments in the Legal Amazon.

According to Wilson, since the installation of the antennas until today, only three public schools in the state of Amazonas have received the antennas free of charge, which are marketed through representatives of the company Starlink, which belongs to the South African billionaire and which provides internet access.

“The internet that he started to put in the Amazon was never connected to public policies. Result: drug dealers, land grabbers and criminals have Elon Musk’s antenna, but the simplest community, in the interior, does not have access”,

stated.

Folha de S.Paulo showed that eleven Starlink internet kits were seized in illegal mining areas in the Yanomami Indigenous Land, according to a survey by the Brazilian Institute of the Environment and Natural Resources (Ibama).

Joint operations by Ibama and the Federal Highway Police in the Amazon forest have been taking place since the beginning of the year, with the objective of interrupting the supply lines of illegal mining, forcing the invaders to leave and to make activity in the region unfeasible.

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The government of Jair Bolsonaro (PL), in partnership with the American businessman Elon Muskfounder of satellite development companies, starlinkand a manufacturer of aerospace systems, SpaceX, in May 2022, announced that it would bring internet to 19,000 Brazilian schools through the company Starlink. At the time, the Bolsonaro government announced the goal of connecting 100% of public schools in the North region by the end of 2022. However, to date, more than 5,000 schools are still without internet in the region, according to data from the National Telecommunications (Anatel).

At the time, Elon Musk came to Brazil personally for a meeting with representatives of the public and private sectors to discuss the expansion of connectivity in the Amazon and actions to reinforce the preservation of the forest.

The event, held in the municipality of Porto Feliz, in São Paulo, was attended by the President of the Republic at the time, Jair Bolsonaro, and the Minister of Communications, Fábio Faria, who explained that the partnership between public and private initiatives to bring internet to schools would contribute to MCom’s goal of connecting 100% of public teaching units in the North region by the end of 2022, in addition to bringing internet access to health units, indigenous communities and remote locations.

According to former president Bolsonaro, the visit of the American businessman to Brazil would contribute to international impressions regarding the actions to preserve the Amazon developed by the federal government.

“We are going to show that the Amazon is preserved. Of course, there are niches for exploitation of burning and irregular deforestation. But this, the arrival of satellites will help us to preserve. Now, we also need to develop that region, which is extremely rich in biodiversity and mineral wealth”,

said during his visit to Brazil.

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