MINERAÇÃO NA AMAZÔNIA BRASILEIRA: aspectos da presença e avanço do capital na região

Abstract

The Brazilian Amazon region has been presented to the world as a stronghold of ecosystems, species of living beings not yet cataloged and those already cataloged, which express abundant economic potential to meet the aspirations of the contemporary capitalist ruse. In the region, there is also the historical process of mineral extraction, which is currently in the condition of commodittes (commodities), which represent, in their totality, an important part of national production, 6.8% of the Brazilian GDP, equivalent to 65% of value of Brazilian exports. In this study we emphasize that the presence of these companies in the region constitute a framework for the exploitation of wealth derived from nature so that the real gains are turned to meet the capitalist profitability to the detriment of the conditions and ways of life of the historical subjects present in the region for which the deleterious consequences of the way of being of capital and the intensification of inequalities at the local level in their many dimensions.

Keywords

• capital
• amazon
• mining
• commodittes