When Jair Bolsonaro first opened the UN General Assembly in September 2019, his message was clear: Brazil would not accept questioning the sovereignty of the Amazon. And with that argument, any accusation of deforestation was an alien threat to national interests.
Alongside the soldiers who today showed that they could encroach on democracy, the captain reiterated the narrative of his only major ally, Donald Trump, who insisted that multilateralism is not the solution and that powerful dominions must take revenge.
Ernesto Araújo, the then Minister of Foreign Affairs, was another person who took the opportunity to declare that the government would not accept “to relativize sovereignty over its own territory, whatever the pretext or disguise.”
During his three years in power, Bolsonaro manipulated the term to abandon international treaties, hide crimes and legalize occupations.
But this same concept, so precious to Bolsonarism, seems to have become relativistic this Friday, when Planalto Palace celebrated a deal with billionaire Elon Musk to help “track” the Amazon.
There is no doubt that the region must be monitored today, including dealing with some groups that rely on the peace of mind of the people in power to occupy the land.
But dominantly, a society needs to know the details of the cost of this deal, whether there is a bidding process and how the database collected by the system will be handled.
The column found that preparations for Musk’s visit did not even go through Itamaraty, an institution that has always known what sovereignty is. There is no information on whether the system will be abused or who will be responsible for monitoring groups that question state violence.
from latin super omniaThe concept of sovereignty has acquired different components over the centuries. But it is worth remembering that Paul Virgilio warned that sovereignty would no longer be in the region, but under his control.
For the excitement of military personnel and their viagra, the Brazilian flag can keep flying at Armed Forces outposts in the jungle. However, in addition to embarrassing declarations of love from government officials and an unexplained medal awarded by the Department of Defense, this will be nothing more than an illusion until it becomes clear what Musk is actually getting from Brazil.
It’s not just the ability to monitor Amazon that is at stake today. But control over the data such a system would produce and would be in the hands of a foreign king.
source: Noticias
