Invisibilities and Violence in Socio-Environmental Conflicts on Indigenous Lands of the Alto Solimoes Microregion, Amazonas Brazil

Marked by the sociodiversity of natural assets appropriation forms, amazonian rural societies comprise a unique territorial, economic and political dynamics in the Pan-Amazon region. In this region, these uses are infused by State interests and markets, allowing to evidence innumerable socio-environmental conflicts derived from access to lands, waters and forests relations. This study presents a socioenvironmental conflicts involving lands traditionally occupied by indigenous, ribeirinhos and agroextractive communities on the state of Amazonas/Brazil. The methodological approach was based on qualitative and quantitative research using semi-structured interviews and documentary analysis. In the state of Amazonas, in the Alto Solimoes micro-region, where the threefold Amazonian border is located Brazil, Colombia and Peruregion, conflicts over the appropriation of natural assets are historically marked by drug trafficking, intensification of illegal action by loggers, garimpeiros, and commercial fishermen in territories of common use areas. These conflicts have made impossible to guarantee the territorial rights and natural resources management available to rural societies, marked by the political violence of State acts and illegalities of cross-border economic activities. On the other hand, in confronting the uncertainties of a present-absence of the State, local rural societies have been triggering various resistance mechanisms, including identities and territorial, which are configured against the advance of violence, connivance and disrespect for the traditional use of their historically occupied lands.