Mr Ivo Narciso Cassol This is Me

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1. 1. Tacy Ltd

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   Published on: 10/26/2003   Last Visited: 11/6/2005

   The governor of Rondônia, Ivo Cassol, has met with the Minister of Justice, Márcio Thomaz Bastos, to ask for the state to control the illegal extraction of minerals in the Roosevelt indigenous land, belonging to the Cinta Larga people, in Espigão D'Oeste and Pimenta Bueno. Proposals in an official letter given to the minister containing would make economic capital out of the diamonds in the River Roosevelt.
   
   In an attempt to avoid conflicts between prospectors and the indigenous people, Cassol proposed that the extraction of diamonds from the land of the Cinta Larga people be restarted, with the prospecting carried out by non-indigenous people being covered by indigenous people's associations and organizations and under the control of the state.
   
   In the document, the governor asks for the state-owned mining company Companhia de Mineração de Rondônia (CMR), to organize prospecting, mineral research, technical service and environmental recovery.
   
   "Through extracting diamond s from the Roosevelt Reserve, the indigenous people will get a percentage of the mined production, which will generate the resources required to solve the problems that are of interest to the community," says the letter.
   
   Cassol says that all information relating to the Roosevelt indigenous land will be passed over to the Brazilian Intelligence Agency, and that CMR, together with the Caixa Econômica Federal or the Banco do Brasil, will be responsible for the purchase of all the diamonds produced.

2. 2. www.wcampaign.net

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   Published on: 11/11/2007   Last Visited: 11/11/2007

   AT LAST, my meeting approaches with the governor of Rondonia, Ivo Cassol. I have been asked to call his press secretary after 7:30am, with a view to meeting Mr Cassol at about nine. But he is late, returning from a trip in “the interior”. (In Brazil, even for a state with no coastline, such as Rondonia, any place not the capital is “the interior”.) I kill time in the hotel lobby.
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   I ask whether Bolivia is right to worry that flooding may overrun some of its territory; Mr Cassol insists that it will not, and then asks me “Who runs your country? We run Brazil.” Evo Morales, Boliviaâ€s president, should stop “putting his beak” in Brazilâ€s affairs, he says.
   
   Asked whether the work will contribute to deforestation, he returns to his point: the Rio Madeira, and the Amazon forest around it, belong to Brazil. If the rest of the world cares so much about Amazoniaâ€"here, he starts slapping a powerful fist on the tableâ€"“Pay! Pay! Pay for us to preserve it!” He says that he is protecting the forest, and not getting a dollar or a real for doing so.
   
   His demeanour aside, he has a point.

3. 3. Governor of Rondonia records corruption and blackmail by Deputies

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   Published on: 5/9/2006   Last Visited: 11/18/2007

   The video was recorded by Governor of Rondonia, Ivo Cassol, at his home and work office; mr. Cassol himself handed the tape to TV Globo. The tape shows three State Deputies trying to get the Governor to pay them a monthly amount of cash (the sum of R$ 50,000 is mentioned). The Governor is being charged for supposed liability crimes, which would have been commited while he was Mayor of a municipality in Rondônia; it is up to the Deputies to decide whether the Governor will be impeached; the Comission would be presided over by the three Deputies which attempt to blackmail the Governor.