Ravaging Pan-Amazonia

Deforestation, socio-economic contradictions and eco-environmental conflicts of hegemonic capitalism with global impact

Nubia Barrera Silva

Abstract
The Pan-Amazon region occupies 4.9% of the world's continental area. It has three shared characteristics: (a) its borders extend to the frontiers of eight countries in South-Central America;1 (b) it has been hijacked by hegemonic agri-food, mining and energy capitalism, transnational drug trafficking crime, chemical precursors, arms, munitions and explosives; (c) it unleashes promiscuous relations with Colombian guerrillas, legal armies, paramilitaries, politicians, state agents and corrupt national elites; and (d) it is subject to the most humiliating slavery regime of migrants,indigenous peoples and peasants previously expelled from rural territories and properties. The corporate enclave subjects migrants, indigenous peoples and peasants previously expelled from rural territories and properties to the most humiliating slavery regime.

Under the slogan of anything goes, the imposition of the extractive model of deforestation advances unstoppably in remote areas of the rainforest, a refuge for uncontacted indigenous peoples. Behind it, ecocide and human tragedies are left behind through contradictions between capital, nature and the owners of indigenous and peasant reserves. Ultimately, all destructive natural impacts deepen the advance of climate collapse on Earth.


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