#State of Roraima

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Orla Taumanan, Boa Vista, Brazil: The Orla Taumanan is a large structure suspended on the right bank of the Branco River, in the historic center of the Brazilian city of Boa Vista, capital of the State of Roraima, built and maintained by the city hall. It was inaugurated in July 2004, totaling 6,500 square meters. Wikipedia

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Libraries Around the World: Boa Vista, Brazil

Biblioteca Pública do Estado de Roraima (State of Roraima Public Library)

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Brazilian Yanomami indigenous territory faces less mining, hunger

Over the past two years, public authorities and civil organizations have waged a daily battle against gold miners invading Yanomami territory, helping to address the humanitarian crisis in Brazil’s largest indigenous reserve, which is home to 376 communities and approximately 33,000 people.

As a result, mining areas within the nearly 10-million-hectare indigenous land in the states of Amazonas and Roraima, in northern Brazil, have been reduced by 91 percent.

Additionally, the Brazilian government reports a 95.76 percent decrease in the expansion of new illegal mining areas. These mines contaminate rivers, deplete natural resources for local populations, and, in addition to creating a public health crisis, have become a security threat to the region’s communities.

In 2024 alone, over 3,000 operations were conducted to combat illegal activities, with military and civilian personnel involved on a daily basis.

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(sorry this is from a week ago but) Wait, what's going on right now that's complicated with Amazonian farmers' land rights?

Not farmers, indigenous people

See, recently they put a new law through congress that severely reduces indigenous land to the borders established during the late dictatorship, or immediately post-dictatorship, in 1988. An absolute joke of a border that was dreamed up by some military assholes. People in america may recognize this type of society from the times of westward expansion and think this is a thing of the past because for you guys it is. But here it is a reality. Murder is rampant. The reach of the law is incredibly limited. Government is just too weak and landowners basically run things. THAT'S WHY it's so important to donate directly to the native peoples instead of random NGOs because native people are fucking there and the more power they hold in the land the safer the land will be from agroindustrial expansion.

Well the law was vetoed by the the president and the Supremo Tribunal Federal, aka supreme federal court, labeled it as unconstitutional. Which it is, because our 1988 constitution describes native american land rights in some of its first articles. We thought this would be it for the law

But then the senate (that already overrepresents landowners in rural states) just went along and approved it anyway. I had no idea they could approve something unconstitutional. The progressives and particularly the socialists are fighting this in court. But it happens that for now the legal border is the severely reduced version.

Doesn't mean they'll just give up, because as it happens we don't have any stand your ground laws so even if you own a piece of land, you cannot legally speaking just shoot everyone there. Or attack or threaten them in any way. They'll just have long legal battles individually for the rights to occupy land based on use. Also the Xingu national park, the largest preserved land of the Amazon described as 'larger than Belgium', is being encroached by huge farms that are poisoning their water supply. The border is Visible. I'll try to find video of it but essentially you have a forest and a desert separated by a strict line.

Just last week in the south of Bahia (not the Amazon, let me explain more about the Amazon situation in a bit) Hãhãhãe leadership Nega Muniz Pataxó was shot and killed by an armed militia group that invaded and occupied the Caramuru territory.

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The situation in the Amazon, specifically the yanomami territory in Roraima our northernmost state, aka deep forest, is more dire than average given difficulty of access, sheer size, and government abandonment. It's a place that depends on government aid for medicine. It's land that is being systematically invaded by gold miners, pandemic, toxins from nearby farmlands, wood extraction etc. (wood extration is rampant everywhere tho). Early 2023 saw a massive federal government operation by now president Lula to empty the mines and try to look for where funding comes from. Yanomami land is still being invaded to this day, the struggle is ongoing.

The yanomamis need support right now more than any other. Last year saw a massive heat wave that (well, one, caused a girl named Ana Clara Machado to die during the Taylor Swift concert. This is unrelated but I feel like not enough foreign media covered this, Taylor even lied about it as well.) dried up a lot of rivers, killed a LOT of fresh water animals including an unprecedented amount of pink dolphins. Access that was already hard became damn near impossible without boats. I cannot overstate how many pink dolphins were found dead.

Another technique that landowners use to clear space for farms is to just set things on fire and then occupy the empty land, which they legally can do to land that was naturally burned in a forest fire. It happened that Pantanal, another national park of swampland, was massively devastated by fires last year too

this article is from 2020, the year that the worst fire happened, but in 2023 there was another one. It's been happening yearly now due to a) deliberate action and b) climate change aggravation.

And this is not nearly all. Just off the top of my head. If you speak portuguese I recommend following the APIB or the COIAB on instagram to keep up with the news. The FUNAI is the government branch of indigenous organization, but it's not generally that well liked. Still.

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Brazil’s government has begun removing thousands of non-Indigenous people from two native territories in a move that will affect thousands who live in the heart of the Amazon rainforest. The Brazilian intelligence agency ABIN said in a statement that the goal was to return the Apyterewa and Trincheira Bacaja lands in Para state to the original peoples. ... “The presence of strangers on Indigenous land threatens the integrity of the Indigenous [people] and causes other damages, such as the destruction of forests,” the agency said in its statement. It added that about 1,600 families lived illegally in that region with some involved in illegal activities such as cattle raising and gold mining. “They also destroy native vegetation.” ... Brazil’s President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has begun rebuilding environment protection agencies and created eight protected areas for Indigenous people. Soon after the beginning of his administration, his government expelled thousands of goldminers from the massive Yanomami Indigenous territory in the northern state of Roraima. State and federal authorities this year also dislodged landgrabbers from the Alto Rio Guama territory. They threatened forcible expulsion of those settlers failing to leave, and pledged to eliminate access roads and irregular installations. Nearly all of the illegal residents departed voluntarily.

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Mount Roraima near the Macuxi community of Maturuca, Raposa–Serra do Sol Indigenous Territory, state of Roraima, Brazil, 2018.

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Researchers in the Brazilian Amazon found universal mercury contamination among members of the Yanomami Indigenous group living in a region awash in illegal gold mining, said a study published Thursday, warning of devastating health impacts. The study, led by Brazilian public health institute Fiocruz, took hair samples and mouth swabs from 293 Yanomami in nine villages in the upper Mucajai river region in the northern state of Roraima. The region is among those hit hardest by illegal gold mining in the Yanomami reservation, a territory bigger than Portugal that is home to around 29,000 Indigenous people.

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I got curious and so was doing some research on the etimology of the names of states and biomes in Brazil, and apparently most of it is named after words in the languages of the native peoples! Examples:

Caatinga comes from Tupi-Guarani: Ka'a (vegetation) + Tinga (white, clear)

Roraima comes from Ianomâmi: roro or rora (green) + ímã (mountain).

Acre comes from Apurinãs word aquiri, which means River of Alligators.

Pará comes from Tupi-Guarani pa'ra, which means Sea River, because the river was so wide it looked like the sea.

Like, most of the states whose names aren't actually words in Portuguese (for example, Rio De Janeiro (January River (?)) come from Tupi-Guarani, and I think that's neat

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Coyote Buttes, Arizona by circleyq

Ensenada Honda is a beautiful town with houses made in the Mediterranean style and beautiful beaches. It is located in the Gulf of Cariaco, Sucre State. It is located on the shores of the Gulf of Cariaco, near Marigüitar.

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Mount Roraima Mountain, South America

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The Amazon faces many threats. The constant proliferation of road networks—both legal and illegal—brings new settlements, and growing human populations burn forests to clear land for cattle and crops. The rain forest is enduring an unprecedented drought, and in Roraima, the state where the Yanomami territory is situated, wildfires set off by such slash-and-burn efforts have spread out of control; more than four thousand square miles burned there this year, releasing vast amounts of carbon into the atmosphere. But mining for gold and cassiterite, a mineral used in electronics, exacerbates the environmental problems with singular ferocity. Wildcat miners, using giant excavators, dredgers, and mercury, can devastate miles of river and forest in a matter of days.

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It has been a year of many departures of young poets, it seems that not even they believe in what they write, everyone has problems, but it is at these times that great poetry comes, all great poets were and still are drunk and problematic, behind the lines always conscious and who amaze us, there is always a man or woman with liquid disorders or in need of help for very serious psychosocial problems, Hemingway and Bukowski lived in bars, brothels and low-end hotels to gain inspiration, whoever really wants to be a great writer, has to learn to get used to loneliness and a certain social exclusion, after all who needs people who do not understand us, if you want someone who understands you and just look for us and keep writing, you will soon find your beautiful words going viral on social media, the strange thing is that it will be the same people who did not want to hear you who will spread your words to millions of others who did not want to hear millions of other young poets, there is that story that the grass is always greener on the other side, the poetic life And like that, we are usually not valued by those who are closest to us, fortunately that is not my case, you have talent, you just need to overcome each criticism with great determination and learn from it, of course you have to know if the criticism is fair, maybe your work is perfect and it is just envy, seek a second or third or fourth opinion, as much as you need to have a more concrete opinion, I had been posting texts for a long time, until one day someone from the blog Alma de Poeta said that my texts were causing a lot of buzz around there, I kind of didn't pay attention, I didn't take it very seriously, but out of nowhere someone sent me a kind of chain message with a text that she thought was beautiful and in Boa Vista in the state of Roraima it was a success, that's where she lived, beautiful surprise, because it was one of mine, a silly thing that keeps me going to this day, I don't want to make money and fame with this, I just want to spread it to everyone who needs a little of my love.

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Russian Su-57 fighter gets new compact air-to-air missile with a range of 300 km

Fernando Valduga By Fernando Valduga 10/31/2023 - 08:42am Military

The Russian Su-57 fighter was equipped with a new long-range in-fuseling cruise missile, the RVV-BD – R-37M, designed to fit comfortably at the bottom of the stealth aircraft.

A informed source revealed to RIA Novosti that the missile is smaller in size compared to the "classic" cruise missiles, specifically adapted for the in-casting compartment. Although the exact specifications of the missile remain undisclosed, it has a range comparable to the cruise missiles of the strategic bombers Tu-160 and Tu-95MS. This size reduction was achieved through the incorporation of a folding wing, a new small bypass turbojet engine and an impeccably refined design.

New missiles for the Su-57 have been in development for some time, gradually increasing the aircraft's arsenal. At the end of August of this year, reports emerged that the fighter would soon receive a long-range missile capable of hitting high-speed air threats up to 300 km away, presumably the long-range guided air-to-air missile RVV-BD - R-37M.

Speculation surrounds the potential adaptation of the R-37M missile system, already integrated into the Su-57 fighter. This advanced variant of the 1989 R-37 missile system can hit high and low altitude targets at distances greater than 300 kilometers. Notably, this missile technology is also expected to extend to the Su-35.

The R-37M, also known as RVV-BD (Long Range Air-Air Air missile) can reach hypersonic speeds. It will be used by modernized MiG-31BM interceptors, Su-35S and Su-57 multifunctional fighters. This missile is capable of reaching altitudes ranging from 15 to 25,000 meters, guided semi-actively or actively by the Agat 9B-1388 system.

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Fernando Valduga

Aviation photographer and pilot since 1992, has participated in several events and air operations, such as Cruzex, AirVenture, Dayton Airshow and FIDAE. He has work published in specialized aviation magazines in Brazil and abroad. Uses Canon equipment during his photographic work in the world of aviation.

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School attendance rate of Indigenous People increases in Northern Brazil

Data from a report titled “2022 Census: Education: Preliminary Sample Results” indicate that Amazonas, a state located in northern Brazil, ranks seventh nationally in school attendance rates among Indigenous people. The survey was conducted by the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE) and was released on Wednesday, the 26th.

Amapá leads the list with a rate of 46.07%, followed by Tocantins (43.1%), Maranhão (39.83%), Acre (39.65%), Pará (38.96%), and Mato Grosso (38.55%). Among the top ten ranked states, nine are part of the Legal Amazon region. Roraima appears in eighth place with 35.32%, while Rondônia registers 34.13%. Mato Grosso do Sul closes the list with 33.12%, standing out as the only state from the Central-West region among the ten best-positioned states.

IBGE also revealed that approximately 22,362 children up to five years old are attending schools or daycare centers in Amazonas, which corresponds to 33.3% of the total recorded in Brazil. Nationwide, approximately 67.1 thousand children in this age group attend educational institutions. The school attendance rate among five-year-old Indigenous children in Amazonas is 5.6% for boys and 5.18% for girls.

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