Military Moves into Environmental Management in South America
Publisher: Counterpunch
Author(s): Eduardo Gudynas
Date: 2019
Topics: Extractive Resources, Governance, Land, Peace and Security Operations
Countries: Brazil, Colombia, Venezuela
Environmental and land management in South America is being slowly but persistently militarized, with the aim of controlling extractive industries, especially gold mining. In Colombia, Brazil and Venezuela, as well as other countries, both conservative and progressive governments participate in this militarization. The basic dispute is not so much in avoiding negative environmental and social impacts, as in controlling economic surpluses.