Close
KTAR.com
News
Shows
Blogs
KTAR News on 92.3FM

Problematic or perilous: Brazil’s environmental choice

FILE - Dredging barges operated by illegal miners converge on the Madeira river, a tributary of the Amazon river, searching for gold, in Autazes, Amazonas state, Brazil, Nov. 25, 2021. Brazilians go to the polls in October, and they'll have a choice between reelecting Jair Bolsonaro, or bringing back former President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. Bolsonaro has allowed settlers to takeover public land and gold miners to move into indigenous territory. (AP Photo/Edmar Barros, File) FILE - Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro, left, listens to his Environment Minister Ricardo Salles before the start of a news conference on deforestation in the Amazon at the Planalto presidential palace in Brasilia, Brazil, Aug. 1, 2019. Salles, resigned in 2021, after Federal Police began investigating whether he was aiding the export of illegally cut timber. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres, File) FILE - The Alto Rio Guama Indigenous Reserve sits next to a deforested area owned by cattle ranchers, in Para state, Brazil on Sept. 5, 2019. Brazilians go to the polls in October, and they'll have a choice between reelecting Jair Bolsonaro, or bringing back former President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. On da Silva's watch, the state development bank made low-interest loans to what became the world's largest meatpacker, with cattle often raised on deforested land. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd, File) FILE - An activist holds a sign written in Portuguese that reads "Mining out. The forest stands," during a demonstration by the "Act for the Earth" movement in front of the National Congress in Brasilia, Brazil, Wednesday, March 9, 2022. Brazilians go to the polls in October, and they'll have a choice between reelecting Jair Bolsonaro, or bringing back former President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres, File) FILE - Brazilian President Luiz Inacio lula da Silva, right, talks to Environment Minister Marina Silva during a ceremony in Brasilia, Brazil, March 15, 2004. "The first time there has been an anti-environment environment minister was under Bolsonaro," said Silva. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres, File) FILE - Munduruku Indians march to the Ministry of Mines and Energy, in Brasilia, Brazil, June 11, 2013. The group along with other had been occupying the controversial Belo Monte dam being built in the Amazon on the Xingu River. In June 2022, da Silva told an Amazon-based radio station he doesn't regret the mammoth Belo Monte Dam that displaced some 40,000 people and dried up stretches of the Xingu River that Indigenous and other communities depended upon for fish. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres, File) FILE - The Belo Monte hydroelectric dam stands in the Xingu River in Altamira, Para state, Brazil, Sept. 6, 2019. Brazilians go to the polls in October, and they'll have a choice between reelecting Jair Bolsonaro, or bringing back former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva. In June 2022, da Silva told an Amazon-based radio station he doesn't regret the mammoth Belo Monte Dam that displaced some 40,000 people and dried up stretches of the Xingu River that Indigenous and other communities depended upon for fish. (AP Photo/Andre Penner, File) Brazil's former president, who is running for reelection, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, left, appears in Sao Paulo, Brazil, July 3, 2022, and Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, right, attends a meeting on June 9, 2022, in Los Angeles. Brazilians go to the polls in October, and they'll have a choice between reelecting Bolsonaro, or bringing back former president da Silva. (AP Photos)