“Rules of Brazilian law are lax”, emphasizes governor of Mato Grosso on environmental crimes

O Roda Viva receive Mauro Mendesgovernor of the state of Mato Grossoin this Monday’s edition (29).

The court recently denied preventive detention of the cattle rancher Claudecy Oliveira Lemesinvestigated by chemical deforestation in an area of ​​more than 80 thousand hectares at the Pantanal Mato Grosso. According to Public Ministry of Mato Grosso (MPMT)this was the greatest environmental damage ever recorded in the state.

“Using this technology [desmate químico] the system was not prepared. We have already made an emergency contract and in a maximum of a month and a half we will make a technological adaptation and we will be able to understand […]”, says the governor about the failure in detection.

Still regarding the denied arrest request, the interviewee is emphatic:

“We are playing with the rules of Brazilian law and I always say, they are lax. If we don’t change this, we will continue to live with the same problems.”

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Participate in the panel of interviewers Diego Nunespresenter of the program Interview Wheel from the TV Moreaffiliate of TV Cultura in Cuiabá, Isadora Duartereporter for Broadcast Agriculture from the State Agency, Mariana Grillijournalist specializing in agribusiness, Mauro Tagliaferri, journalist, and Milena Teixeirapolitical reporter for CBN in Brasilia.

Watch the program in full:

With presentation of Vera Magalhãesthe program will air live from 10pm on TV Culturaat the broadcaster websiteat the app Culture Play and on social media X (the old Twitter), YouTube, Tik Tok It is Facebook.

There is also the participation of the cartoonist Luciano Veroneziwhich illustrates the interview in real time.

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