A INTERVENÇÃO ESTATAL NO CONFLITO NA TERRA INDÍGENA ROOSEVELT: UM ESTUDO DE CASO NO PERÍODO 2001-2009

Abstract

This study aims to investigate and report the circumstances in which they were federal government intervention in the Roosevelt Indigenous Land, originally inhabited by indians-wide straps, depending on the social tension generated from the intrusion of miners. The initial strategy was to try to stop the extraction of diamonds, settling in the region, an apparatus whose scenario involving public security forces and agencies under the direct control of environmental activity and mineral. Several factors, both spatial and temporal, that hampered the initial claim, so that state action has to focus control on the sale of illegally obtained precious stones. This research shows how the government interference in a fuzzy socio environmental contributed to aggravating the crisis between Indians and non-indians in the region, projecting Brazil in the international arena as a country disobey agreements on human rights.