We invited Vale to comment on the allegations of abuse regarding breaching quilombolas right to information, miscategorising quilombola groups, failing to complete agreed infrastructure works in 2006 offered to the quilombolas and local communities from Santa Maria de Tracuateua, and long-term conflictivity with quilombolas in the region of Para regarding the development of the Mineração Paragominas, owned by Vale until 2011. The company responded.