1. 3.400 Km from east to west
2.000 km from north to south

2. Amazon river: 6.762 km (Nile/ 6.671)
More than affluent
Flows more than m3/seg.
20% of the non frozen water of the planet

3. Biodiversity:
34% of the virgin rain forest of the world
30% of the faun and flora

4. 9 out of 13 south American countries

5. Earth of promises and hope for some people ...

6. ... of suffering and disillusions for many others !

7. Strong process of urbanization
From the inner places in the forest to the marginalized areas in the cities
From poverty to misery
70% inhabitants are in the cities
Santarém
(300 mil)
Leticia - Tabatinga
(80 mil)
Manaus
(1,8 millones)
Itacoatiara
(80 mil)
Iquitos
(400 mil)
Belém
(1,6 millones)
Yurimaguas
(30 mil)
Tefé
(70 mil)
Manacapuru
(82 mil)
Parintins
(105 mil)
Pucalpa
(40 mil)
Citizenship and “forest-ship”

8. Indian nations
Broken by
Frontiers

9. Century and a half of robbery and lies !
Extravctivists cycles:
Cutchogue and different resins.
Furs and exotic animals
Fish, turtles, manati and other river fauna
Gold, diamonds and other minerals
Now we are living the cycles of : + Wood : cedro, caoba + Oil and gas + narcotic products + Bio-traffic
“MAMAZONÍA”
Valle del Huallaga (Pichis Palcazu): 600 millones US$, hoy dedicado a la coca. Carretera Iquitos – Nauta: 100 millones 9

10. “Here I am ,
a direct descendant of those who are here back to 40 thousand years, finding those who found it only 500 hundred year ago”

11. This is a land hurt by pleas having its own giant dimension, from which it is impossible to be free without the solidarity of the whole the people

12. Rutas de ingreso de la cocaína y heroína en la Amazonía brasileña
Drugs and Traffic
In between 90 and 95% of the prisons population in the Brazil-Colombia and Peru border, are imprisoned by drugs traffic.
Rutas de ingreso de la cocaína y heroína en la Amazonía brasileña
C O C A Í N A

13. Irrational exploitation of natural resources: wood, animals, minerals, water.

14. Monocultures: soja, acacia, palm.
Fuente: Veja, Out/2005

15. Cattle more important than people
Cycle
Roads;
Disorganized colonization
deforestation;
Burning of the forest;
Cattle and big land owners;
Monocultures and lose of diversity
Artificial and in-sustetable situation
Fonte: Veja, Out/2005

16. Oil Companies
GARIMPO of minerals

18. A militarist vision of the situation and their answers…
Drugs traffic, bio-traffic , guerrila para-militar corps and iligal groups (mafia), and…
A militarist vision of the situation and their answers…