He owns approximately 9 million hectares. This would correspond to an area roughly twice the size of Israel plus two Switzerlands. He specializes in cattle ranching. However, according to the report, the juridical department of the Land Institute of the State of Para suspects that Carlos Medeiros does not exist. The number of his identity card is false and government officials suspect that the name, Carlos Medeiros, is being used to give cover to land grabbers in the region.
Para is the state where the most acute cases of land violence have taken place in recent years.
The construction had been opposed by the local indian groups who suffered violence especially from the police. The good news is that the construction has been halted by a court injunction. We reproduce information on the injuction prepared by the International Rivers Network. On March 17, a Federal Court issued a restraining order halting construction of a hydroelectric dam which would flood the land of the Macuxi and Ingarico Indians. The state government of Roraima had begun dam construction without permission from federal authorities, despite the fact that Brazil's constitution requires a special act of Congress to authorize any dams on Indian lands.