"Justiça nos Trilhos" is so called the campaign initiated by the Comboni missionaries against the multinational Vale do Rio Doce, in the region of Carajás, Brazil. The indiscriminate exploitation of mineral resources in the region have led to a massive environmental destruction, with serious consequences life and health of local populations.
The Brazilians call it 'the way the Iron' is a nearly 900 km long railway was built exclusively to transport iron ore from the richest in the world (in the region of Carajás, state of Maranhao, Brazil) to a of the main commercial ports of Latin America: the port of São Luís.
The trains do not carry passengers, but only minerals: 12 trains, 330 cars and 4 locomotives every day, loaded with minerals for a value of 20 million euro per day.
to manage the extraction and transport is a single multinational company, Companhia Vale do Rio Doce mining company, the second the world. In this part of Amazonia the mining means estate, logging, frequent fires, monoculture, steel industries, slave labor. A massive environmental devastation that has serious repercussions on the health and lives of local people.
For more than two years Comboni missionaries working in the troubled region of the world waging a battle that resulted in the Country "on the rails of Justice" ... Also supported a campaign today by an international network of organizations fighting for environmental protection and population.
a transnational movement that they would meet next April 12 to 15 in Rio de Janeiro.
In contrast with the annual meeting of shareholders of the corporation, to be held concurrently, the meeting in Rio de Janeiro aims instead to show an assembly of people, exchanging experiences and build strategies.
(Interview with Dario Bossi, a Comboni missionary, was extracted from the radio program Focus , Michela Trevisan)
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