Patrus accuses Temer of encouraging violence in the countryside.
Federal Deputy Patrus Ananias (PT-MG) harshly criticized the government of President Michel Temer, which, according to the parliamentarian, made an "invaluable contribution to the criminals who sponsor and perpetrate violence in rural areas of Brazil." The congressman stated that Temer made this contribution on two occasions: "First, on October 26th, the government did not include the National Agrarian Ombudsman in the new structure of what remained of the Ministry of Agrarian Development. Second, on November 24th, it dismissed the entire Ombudsman team, effectively extinguishing the only federal body dedicated to mediating land conflicts," said Ananias.
Mines 247 - Federal deputy Patrus Ananias (PT-MG) harshly criticizes the government of President Michel Temer, which, according to the parliamentarian, has made "an invaluable contribution to the criminals who sponsor and those who perpetrate violence in rural areas of Brazil - those who order threats and those who threaten; those who order injuries and those who injure; those who order killings and those who kill."
The congressman stated that Temer made this contribution on two occasions. "First, on October 26th, the government did not include the National Agrarian Ombudsman in the new structure of what remained of the Ministry of Agrarian Development. Second, on November 24th, he dismissed the entire Ombudsman's team, effectively eliminating the only federal body dedicated to mediating land conflicts," said Ananias.
According to the Workers' Party member, "it is impossible to know how many conflicts the Ombudsman's work has prevented; how many lives it has saved; how many it has prevented from being injured throughout its 20-year history." "But it is absolutely certain that its services have protected the rights of poor people and communities in the countryside – small producers, landless workers, indigenous people, in short, the main victims of murders and other forms of violence perpetrated in rural Brazil," he stated.
"At the same time as they ended the Ombudsman's Office, Michel Temer and his aides tried to offend one of the most distinguished and dedicated public servants in the country, the Agrarian Ombudsman Gercino José da Silva Filho. The coup plotters spared themselves the burden of dismissing Judge Gercino. They were satisfied with the interpretation that, with the Ombudsman's Office abolished, the position of Ombudsman was automatically abolished as well. And they give the impression that they committed an act of cowardice," he added.