EDITORIAL – The narrative control of the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation
17 de March de 2025
By Paula Litaiff
In the 1980s, three French writers, Max Pagés, Michel Bonetti, and Vincent de Gaulejac, published the work The Power of Organizations (1987), in which they deciphered how multinational corporations have the ability to influence state decisions, steering business activities through the control of information and even deciding who lives and who dies in the countries where they operate.
The cover story of the new edition of REVISTA CENARIUM investigated, for six months, information that came to light in the scientific article “Environmental disaster in the Amazon and violation of Indigenous rights facilitated by governance projects on BR-319”, authored by biologists and researchers Lucas Ferrante and Philip Fearnside, and journalist and writer Monica Piccinini. The study reveals what lies behind the “sustainable discourse” about the highway.
Led by journalist Marcela Leiros, the report shows how multinational oil exploration companies work to reduce the state’s power in decisions about BR-319, an 889-kilometer road that cuts through the Amazon. Its construction – if not following legal procedures – could affect the lives of 18,000 indigenous people and compromise an entire ecosystem with irreversible consequences.
Similar to what is described in the French work The Power of Organizations, the multinationals seeking to control the narratives about BR-319 have no ideology of right, left, or center. What they want is to develop methods of domination over individuals to achieve their ultimate goal: to expand the exploitation market and multiply profits.
To achieve their goal of future multi-billion-dollar revenues, these large conglomerates are supported by certain Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs), which receive millions in funding to carry out the “indoctrination” of indigenous peoples around BR-319, under the guise of pseudo-sustainability.
These companies and NGOs are organized in an integrated set of economic, political, ideological, and psychological mechanisms that, once associated, manage to influence traditional media content and state actions. CENARIUM aims to show, through this special report, that not everyone serves this power and that the Amazon is not for sale.
The topic was featured on the cover and as a special report in the latest edition of REVISTA CENARIUM. Click here to read the full content.
