A crescente importância geopolitica da Amazôniano contexto mundial : uma proposta de preservação dos interesses nacionais

Abstract

The increasing geopolitical importance of the Amazon rainforest area in the world-wide context, due to its natural resources and its importance for both the development and continental integration, produces foreign covets, made clear by allegations of environment preservation and aboriginal protection requirements. These allegations aim to characterize the Amazon rainforest area as ?World Heritage?, in order to restrict the Brazilian sovereignty in that region. Brazil has undergone pressures for internalization of the area and, in order to preserve the national interests, it is essential to have an effective presence of the Brazilian State in that distant area. In line with the Brazilian National Defense Politics, the guidance for the 2007 fiscal year stated by the Brazilian Navy Head Officer express the political will to continue the action to improve the presence of the Brazilian Navy in the Brazilian Amazon area. Thus, it is opportune to identify actions that the Brazilian Navy can perform for increasing the occupation of that region, in order to guarantee its security, and to allow its development free from pressures and threats of any nature. An action is proposed and considers a program that contemplates the construction of logistic support bases, distributed in strategical positions throughout the Amazonian navigable rivers, thus extending the presence of the Brazilian Navy in the Brazilian Amazon area and increasing the local population and the integrated development of the region. This action can be financially supported by resources from the ?Programa Calha Norte? and the ?Sistema de Vigilância da Amazônia? programs. Thus, it will be required that the Brazilian Navy concentrates efforts in obtaining these resources, in conformity with the orientation of the Brazilian Navy Head Officer