During
my visit to the patio of DNIT
I could see with my own eyes that million of Real are thrown away, tractors and equipments are consumed by the rust, the highways as BR230 are favors of the own luck and your abandoned residents for the government, a place where the time this consuming the highway, and slowly this turning off what could be a grandiose work to develop the north of the country.
The people that live the margin of the highway, literally need you roll up the mangos and to maintain the highway with the own fist.
I could see with my own eyes that million of Real are thrown away, tractors and equipments are consumed by the rust, the highways as BR230 are favors of the own luck and your abandoned residents for the government, a place where the time this consuming the highway, and slowly this turning off what could be a grandiose work to develop the north of the country.
The people that live the margin of the highway, literally need you roll up the mangos and to maintain the highway with the own fist.
Highway
completes at that time 30 years with 70% of the impassable
course of the rains and reduced investment of the Union is Surrounded
50 thousand families they live to the margins of the highway that
to today league anything to place none
The
Rookie Transamazônica is completing 30 years, but it
stays unfinished.
Without paving and without defined socioeconomic function, became a nightmare for 50 thousand mischievous families for the area in the beginning of the seventies. Today, half of those families just stays in the area, always hoping the highway still comes to accomplish your role of national integration. It is one of the most ambitious works of the military regime, still linking anything to place any, as they rendered ironical your critics to the time of the implantation of the project. The paving, indispensable for alavancar the agricultural production and your drainage, never passed of speeches eleitoreiros or promises to calm the colonists' vitalities. In the entrances of the main appeared cities or enlarged by the colonization disordered in that the project changed, there are plates indicating the beginning of the asfaltamento, the cost of the investment, but the asphalt never arrived. Just some 10 kilometers of the highway, to the height of Marabá, they were asphalted until today, fruit of recent electoral campaigns. Summer - For that, Transamazônica is only trafegável in some spaces during the summer, that is going from June to December. In the rainy period, the traffic is very difficult or impossible in 70% of the highway. Several spaces saw quagmire and they are interrupted, almost leaving ilhados all the urban nuclei. When they interrupt the rains, the bed of the highway sees a river of red dust, that arises to the passage of the cars and it collects the lateral vegetation. The drivers are forced to maintain the lit lights.
Truck and bus can be days and until weeks stalled, awaiting help. In case they transport perishable loads, the damage is right. In the summer, in the 1,5 thousand kilometers between Marabá and Itaituba, besides the dust, the drivers have to face irregular track and bridges already destroyed by the time. The scenery is favorable for the dispute of proofs like Rally of the Interior. Starting from Itaituba, good part of the original plan was swallowed by the forest. It is impressive, however, as the population of Transamazônica it gets to live together with so many problems and it maintains hope. Entrepreneurs, colonists and syndicalists bet in a promising future, they are organized and they struggle to call the government's attention for the advantages that Transamazônica can offer to the country. ''Temos conviction that can provision not only Brazil, but also Mercosul, with bean, rice, sugar, black pepper, cocoa, fruits, green vegetables, vegetables and meat. The area is rich in wood and ores. It is enough to create an infrastructure and to asphalt the highway so that that becomes an immense celeiro'', is enthusiastic the goiano Juraci Dias Costa, regional coordinator of the Federation of the Workers in the Agriculture (Fetagri), in Medicilândia. Origin - Transamazônica begins in Picks (PI) and it should tear the whole forest, until the border with Peru. With that, in the military government's logic, it would interrupt the international greed on the Amazonian. To fill out the demographic emptiness, campaigns were thrown calling ''homens without earth for the earth without homens''. At least 50 thousand families, according to Incra, they were recruited in the South and Northeast of the country. In little time, good part of the largest tropical forest of the world would be transformed in pastures and agricultural fields, that never produced at least 10% of your potential.
Already in 1972, Incra induced the colonists to plant a variety of rice known like ''barbalho '', brought of Pernambuco. But he/she didn't teach the cultivation technique. They planted the barbalho as they planted the other varieties. It was a fiasco. The rice grew in great thickets and he/she didn't at least give a bunch. In consequence, many colonists broke and they abandoned the area. The situation worsened starting from 1986, with the cut of the financing of the production. Until then, there were easy credit and guaranteed minimum price. ''Quando said, in 1971, to the manager of the Bank of Brazil, in Altamira, that didn't have bondsman and nor you guaranteed to offer to the bank, he answered me: he/she doesn't worry, you have a great bondsman, president Médici. I caught the money to pay in five years. In the first crop I liquidated the dívida'', it counts Luiz Damião Peluzzo, a gaucho that lives in Anapu.
Investments - With to deterioration of the track of Transamazônica, for the action of the rains, the colonists' production began to deteriorate, to be stagnated, and they went entering in successive crises. Until the plant of sugar financed by Incra, in Vila Pacal, he/she had to paralyze the production. To revert the picture of Transamazônica, according to specialists of own Incra, the government would have to asphalt the most important spaces and to take care so that the remaining if it maintained trafegável. The paving is only estimated in R$ 800 million. This year they should just be liberated R$ 67,5 million, if they don't happen new cuts in the Budget of the Union. That represents less of the half of what he/she foresees the program plurianual (R$ 175 million) and almost six less times than the total cost of the work. It is enough to say that there are only one and a half year the area it started to receive constant electric power, with the implantation of the linhão of Tucuruí to Itaituba. But the lowering of the discharge tension was not still made and the colonists cannot retire scythe, large knife and axe. ''Parece that the government wanted all to give up after certain time, to give the lands to the great colonization companies. But of here we won't leave nor amarrados'', affirms the paranaense Ademir Fericci, 42 years, that it arrived at the area in 1974 and it is one of the coordinators of the Foundation to Live, to Produce and to Preserve, that agglutinates 110 derived syndical organizations of the Association of the Survivors in Transamazônica.
The foundation has been articulating manifestations, that already resulted in occupation of the representations of Incra, Bank of Brazil, savings bank and Bank of the Amazonian. counts victories as the retaking of the legalization of the lots distributed 30 years ago, liberation of new credits for the Constitutional Fund of the North (FNO) and renegociação of the farmers' debts. Cessation - In the beginning, the colonists lived dispersed, they depended on Incra for everything, but they didn't have appropriate technical orientation or aptitude for the life in the field. Great number of them gave up the adventure. Joaquim Félix was 14 times in Transamazônica, trying to notice and it ended up going back once and for all to Rio Grande do Norte. The government brought a lot of people without likeness with the agriculture. Some even saídos of the houses of detention of the Northeast; others were shoemakers, tailors, small merchants, that had never stepped at the open country. This scenery today is changed; there is a lot of organization in the several categories, unions atuantes and intense political activity. ''Conseguimos to pass of the revindication phase and we are looking for a new development model. The model thought by Incra it was a misunderstanding and knots we cost the perceber'', it increases Fericci. The one that more scares the colonists is the government's threat of building in the call it curves big of Xingu the hydroelectric of Beautiful Monte, besides other five that are projected for the area. ''Se that to happen, they will be flooded six thousand squared kilometers, transforming the survivors of Transamazônica in having reached for barragens'', notices Fericci.
Without paving and without defined socioeconomic function, became a nightmare for 50 thousand mischievous families for the area in the beginning of the seventies. Today, half of those families just stays in the area, always hoping the highway still comes to accomplish your role of national integration. It is one of the most ambitious works of the military regime, still linking anything to place any, as they rendered ironical your critics to the time of the implantation of the project. The paving, indispensable for alavancar the agricultural production and your drainage, never passed of speeches eleitoreiros or promises to calm the colonists' vitalities. In the entrances of the main appeared cities or enlarged by the colonization disordered in that the project changed, there are plates indicating the beginning of the asfaltamento, the cost of the investment, but the asphalt never arrived. Just some 10 kilometers of the highway, to the height of Marabá, they were asphalted until today, fruit of recent electoral campaigns. Summer - For that, Transamazônica is only trafegável in some spaces during the summer, that is going from June to December. In the rainy period, the traffic is very difficult or impossible in 70% of the highway. Several spaces saw quagmire and they are interrupted, almost leaving ilhados all the urban nuclei. When they interrupt the rains, the bed of the highway sees a river of red dust, that arises to the passage of the cars and it collects the lateral vegetation. The drivers are forced to maintain the lit lights.
Truck and bus can be days and until weeks stalled, awaiting help. In case they transport perishable loads, the damage is right. In the summer, in the 1,5 thousand kilometers between Marabá and Itaituba, besides the dust, the drivers have to face irregular track and bridges already destroyed by the time. The scenery is favorable for the dispute of proofs like Rally of the Interior. Starting from Itaituba, good part of the original plan was swallowed by the forest. It is impressive, however, as the population of Transamazônica it gets to live together with so many problems and it maintains hope. Entrepreneurs, colonists and syndicalists bet in a promising future, they are organized and they struggle to call the government's attention for the advantages that Transamazônica can offer to the country. ''Temos conviction that can provision not only Brazil, but also Mercosul, with bean, rice, sugar, black pepper, cocoa, fruits, green vegetables, vegetables and meat. The area is rich in wood and ores. It is enough to create an infrastructure and to asphalt the highway so that that becomes an immense celeiro'', is enthusiastic the goiano Juraci Dias Costa, regional coordinator of the Federation of the Workers in the Agriculture (Fetagri), in Medicilândia. Origin - Transamazônica begins in Picks (PI) and it should tear the whole forest, until the border with Peru. With that, in the military government's logic, it would interrupt the international greed on the Amazonian. To fill out the demographic emptiness, campaigns were thrown calling ''homens without earth for the earth without homens''. At least 50 thousand families, according to Incra, they were recruited in the South and Northeast of the country. In little time, good part of the largest tropical forest of the world would be transformed in pastures and agricultural fields, that never produced at least 10% of your potential.
Already in 1972, Incra induced the colonists to plant a variety of rice known like ''barbalho '', brought of Pernambuco. But he/she didn't teach the cultivation technique. They planted the barbalho as they planted the other varieties. It was a fiasco. The rice grew in great thickets and he/she didn't at least give a bunch. In consequence, many colonists broke and they abandoned the area. The situation worsened starting from 1986, with the cut of the financing of the production. Until then, there were easy credit and guaranteed minimum price. ''Quando said, in 1971, to the manager of the Bank of Brazil, in Altamira, that didn't have bondsman and nor you guaranteed to offer to the bank, he answered me: he/she doesn't worry, you have a great bondsman, president Médici. I caught the money to pay in five years. In the first crop I liquidated the dívida'', it counts Luiz Damião Peluzzo, a gaucho that lives in Anapu.
Investments - With to deterioration of the track of Transamazônica, for the action of the rains, the colonists' production began to deteriorate, to be stagnated, and they went entering in successive crises. Until the plant of sugar financed by Incra, in Vila Pacal, he/she had to paralyze the production. To revert the picture of Transamazônica, according to specialists of own Incra, the government would have to asphalt the most important spaces and to take care so that the remaining if it maintained trafegável. The paving is only estimated in R$ 800 million. This year they should just be liberated R$ 67,5 million, if they don't happen new cuts in the Budget of the Union. That represents less of the half of what he/she foresees the program plurianual (R$ 175 million) and almost six less times than the total cost of the work. It is enough to say that there are only one and a half year the area it started to receive constant electric power, with the implantation of the linhão of Tucuruí to Itaituba. But the lowering of the discharge tension was not still made and the colonists cannot retire scythe, large knife and axe. ''Parece that the government wanted all to give up after certain time, to give the lands to the great colonization companies. But of here we won't leave nor amarrados'', affirms the paranaense Ademir Fericci, 42 years, that it arrived at the area in 1974 and it is one of the coordinators of the Foundation to Live, to Produce and to Preserve, that agglutinates 110 derived syndical organizations of the Association of the Survivors in Transamazônica.
The foundation has been articulating manifestations, that already resulted in occupation of the representations of Incra, Bank of Brazil, savings bank and Bank of the Amazonian. counts victories as the retaking of the legalization of the lots distributed 30 years ago, liberation of new credits for the Constitutional Fund of the North (FNO) and renegociação of the farmers' debts. Cessation - In the beginning, the colonists lived dispersed, they depended on Incra for everything, but they didn't have appropriate technical orientation or aptitude for the life in the field. Great number of them gave up the adventure. Joaquim Félix was 14 times in Transamazônica, trying to notice and it ended up going back once and for all to Rio Grande do Norte. The government brought a lot of people without likeness with the agriculture. Some even saídos of the houses of detention of the Northeast; others were shoemakers, tailors, small merchants, that had never stepped at the open country. This scenery today is changed; there is a lot of organization in the several categories, unions atuantes and intense political activity. ''Conseguimos to pass of the revindication phase and we are looking for a new development model. The model thought by Incra it was a misunderstanding and knots we cost the perceber'', it increases Fericci. The one that more scares the colonists is the government's threat of building in the call it curves big of Xingu the hydroelectric of Beautiful Monte, besides other five that are projected for the area. ''Se that to happen, they will be flooded six thousand squared kilometers, transforming the survivors of Transamazônica in having reached for barragens'', notices Fericci.
Tractors
used in the construction of the Highway abandoned Tranzamazônica
the own luck in the hangars of Federeção.
In
the highway it is possible to see countless crosses, of people
that died in accidents or even in conflicts of lands, in some cases
the residents without financial conditions of burying your dear beings
use the highway as a cemetery.
Talking with the residents, the cases of deaths for the malaria are much more serious than the press published at that time, Sr Antonio Carlos counts that in the beginning of each 100 workers' 80 construction didn't return to your houses.
Talking with the residents, the cases of deaths for the malaria are much more serious than the press published at that time, Sr Antonio Carlos counts that in the beginning of each 100 workers' 80 construction didn't return to your houses.
Mr.
Antonio Carlos, the bridges of wood of BR-230, that gives
access to the municipal districts of Humaitá, Apuí and
Lábrea, are in very bad conditions and most of the gutters
that existed at the place broke. We " had to do ' pinguelas',
small bridges that are done in wood so that she can transpose the
broken gutters, and we are already executing conservation works in
all the spaces to give trafegabilidade to the highway ", it publishes
the coordinator of UNIT. The team of UNIT will also make rising of
all the wood bridges along BR-230 so that they are substituted by
concrete structures. detaches that the priority of action of UNIT
is BR-319, for treating of the highway that links the State of Amazonas
to the rest of the country. He clears that the space between Porto
Velho and Humaitá is intrafegável, as well as the space
between Manaus and the river Tupana in the Km 170, that received asphalt
in the year passed through agreement between Government from Amazonas
and Ministry of the Transports. " The other spaces are in terrible
conditions ", it reinforces.