Miners on Yanomami indigenous territory financed by organized crime
Last Sunday (Apr. 30), security agents killed four miners on the Yanomami indigenous territory in the Brazilian state of Roraima. According to the Brazilian Institute of Environment and Renewable Natural Resources (Ibama), one of the deceased miners was a member of a criminal faction with a nationwide presence. This line of investigation has become a focus of the federal government's intelligence efforts in the region, as Ibama head Rodrigo Agostinho revealed in an interview with journalists on Monday night (May 1) in Boa Vista, the capital of Roraima."Our intelligence service has found very strong evidence that some mining points are maintained with the support of criminal organizations. This is being investigated," said Agostinho. "As for the operation on Sunday [30], one of the people...