On 8 February 2019, one of the leaders of the Tupinamba indigenous peoples group, Rosivaldo Ferreira da Silva (Babau), denounced that he and his family were the targets of an assassination plan. The Tupinamba indigenous reserve is at risk due to the expansion of agribusinesses and increased deforestation. Babau alleges 'robust evidence' of a meeting between big landowners and military and civilian police to kill him and his family on a highway and frame him as a drug trafficker by planting drugs in his car. Among the members of the meeting, Babau points to Abiel Santos, president of the Association of Small Rural Producers of Ilhéus, Una and Buerarema (Aspaiub) and Alfredo Falcão, owner of Fazenda Serra das Palmeiras, who was vice president of Aspaiub.