Bolsonaro consolidates Amazon as a focus of agrarian violence in Brazil, points the Pastoral Commission of Land (CPT)
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According to the latest report published by the Pastoral Commission of Land (CPT), 2020 broke the record for conflicts in the countryside with 2,054 cases registered.Of which 77% of the cases where in the areas of the states of the North region, Mato Grosso, and Maranhão (Legal Amazon), an increase of 8% compared to 2019. Only in 2020, eighteen people, including seven indigenous people, died as a result of conflicts. During the first two years of Jair Bolsonaro's campaign, the number of disputes in the countryside whose aggressor was the government itself exploded, reaching a number seven times higher than practiced in the former administration.
