Prospectors maintain work in Roosevelt

Espigão do Oeste/RO – In spite of the insistence of the authorities in affirming that the situation in the reservation Roosevelt is under control and that the number of prospectors doesn/*t pass of some dozens, the reality inside the reservation is completely different. New facts tells that an unusual situation have been beginning in great proportions inside the reservation. Everybody knows that hundreds of prospectors maintain the work in the dark valleys, turning the gravel deeper in the search of the brilliant stones.

The men, in the majority rude people, work half-undressed and gathering in the dark valleys with shovels, pickax and jets of water, removing the land in the search of the diamond. That lunatic race behind the fortune saw the situation getting complicated in about three months there, with the straiten inspection of the Polices Federal, that are restraining the entrance of fuel, food and drunk inside the reservation Roosevelt.

The interruption of the arrival of those items of vital importance for the maintenance, as much of machines as of men in the work inside of the dark valleys for the legal means, has been causing a great damage for the prospectors with the explosion of the prices now collected by the “varadores”. With that blockade of the authorities the prices are under control in the low lands, getting the point of products as the drum of 200 liters of diesel oil to be worth from R$ 1200 to R$1600 real, a Coca Cola of 2 liters is marketed to R$10 real, a box of “Garoto” chocolate R$15, the gasoline doesn/*t come out for less than R$10, the same price is collected by a kilo of chicken.

With that unbalance in the prices of the products of first need and the lack of the “Good Stone” that disappeared from the selected point, the prospectors are paying to work in the black valleys. There are several comments of dim fact among team members caused by the current situation. With the high cost to maintain a pair of machines working, the proprietors are running into debts more and more. There are cases where theses adventurous ones are there for more than 6 months, been disable from coming back to the city due to their debts. Another problem that is causing apprehension, mainly in the indigenous leaderships is the fact of the discord among the white workers that most of the time work in the percentage regime with the owners of machines and as the “Fished” are not enough even to cover the expenses, they are without receiving their portions for the work.

Gunpowder barrel

There are occasions where they get some valuable stone and soon bet in investing everything to try to recover the damage, then it happens of falling through and the damage is increasing, as well as the dissatisfaction of the so-called “Rodados” that survive from their manpower. Several of those owners of machines opted to abandon the equipment until the things get better, leaving hundreds of unemployed excavators inside of the gossips. Many of those are surviving of eating of favor in some hut until it appears wanders of work.

The prostitution is another records problem that took frightening proportions inside of the mine. Several huts have from 4 to 5 women that entered with the excuse of cooking for the group, but that actually move the profitable business of the prostitution. The indigenous leaderships try not to wrap up in those problems, but as affirmed the cacique Pamaré, it is very difficult to control everybody. Therefore it is not premature to affirm that the mine of “Low land” became a gunpowder barrel that can explode at any time. The drink, the drugs and the prostitution formed an alliance with the prospectors/* dissatisfaction with the owners of machines are the necessary components that will be able to deflagrate a new spill of blood in the Lage and don/*t doubt if one more time the Cinta Largas be made responsible by the deaths that certainly will happen.