Public banks allegedly financed farms on Indigenous land inhabited by isolated groups

According to an article published today by Globo, between 2018 and 2023, public banks injected R$ 1.8 million in federal funds to finance livestock farming on rural properties that overlap with the Uru-Eu-Wau-Wau indigenous land in Rondônia, inhabited by the Amondawa, Jupaú, Oro Win, Kabixi, and Juma peoples, as well as by groups of indigenous people in voluntary isolation, such as the Wyrapararekuara and Jurureí, who use these mountains as a refuge and source of water.

According to the article, the release of state funds, granted mainly by Banco do Brasil with subsidized interest rates via the National Program for Strengthening Family Farming (Pronaf) and the National Program for Supporting Medium-Sized Rural Producers (Pronamp), relied on land tenure inconsistencies, monitoring failures, and alterations to the Rural Environmental Registry (CAR) to support approximately 20,000 head of cattle in the conflict area known as Gleba Burareiro, ignoring the presence of isolated peoples while the impasse over land removal remains stalled in the Supreme Federal Court (STF).