The GREEN WAR for ETHANOL - THE GUARANI's KAIOWÁ lands

While the World is concerned with the economic crises, the euro's sustainability there is a region and their native inhabitants in the globe that are struggling to survive.

In the south region of Mato Grosso do Sul, in the border of Brazil and Paraguay, the most populous indigenous nation of the country silently struggle for its territory, trying to contain the advance of its powerful enemies.

Expelled from their lands, because of the continuous process of colonization, more than 40,000 Guarani Kaiowá live nowadays in less than 1% of their original territory. Over their lands there are now thousands of hectares of sugarcane, planted by multinational enterprises that, in agreement with the government, show ethanol to the world as an environment friendly and “clean” fuel.

Without their lands and the forests, without any of their ancestral ways of cooping with nature, the Guarani Kaiowá have been coexisting for years with all malnutritions and epidemic disease that have decimated their children. With no alternative of subsistence, adults and kids are exploited in the cane fields in exhausting working days making us remembering the old slavery, still so present in our minds. 

On August 8, 2012 completes a year of occupation of part of a territory Pyelito Kue/Mbarakay. The members of these indian communities were violently attacked by gunmen of the farms. Many were killed. Later on they were threatened. Surronded. All their wooden bridges pulled down. More than 10 times.

Despite this isolation, the reocupante indigenous community of 158 (58 women 50 children, 50 men) is still resisting and surviving in a small area retaken now.

But life is being unbearable and they have posted, last week, a collective suicidal intention if they are not allowed to remain in their ancestral territories.

Guarani's Warriors

We will follow the up coming days on this region of the planet and see if the Brazilian government  will attend their demands. With the vast lands at Mato Grosso, it's astonishing that a small piece could not be  allocated to 150 survivors. Men are undoubtably greedy.