The Minas Gerais Civil Police confirmed on Friday (7) that body segments found in the region affected by the rupture of the Mining Dam Vale belong to the real estate breeder Maria de Lurdes da Costa Bueno. She is the 268th identified victim. 
More than six years after the tragedy, the bodies of two people who lost their lives in the episode – Tiago Tadeu Mendes da Silva and Nathália de Oliveira Porto Araújo – are still missing.
Searches for the victims are conducted by the Fire Department that has promised, several times, to maintain work Until the identification of all the dead.
The announcement of the identification of Maria de Lurdes, who died at the age of 59, was highlighted in a post made on the social networks of the victims’ family members and hit by the breach of the dam in Brumadinho (Avabrum). “The struggle for justice, encounter, memory, non -repetition and family rights can not stop!”, The text records. The publication also brings a photo of Maria de Lurdes with a phrase by philosopher and poet Rubem Alves: “What the heart loves, becomes eternal.”
A resident of São José do Rio Pardo (SP), Maria de Lurdes was in Brumadinho Turismo to meet the Inhotim Institute, considered the largest outdoor art center in Latin America. Pousada Nova Estância, where he was hospitable, was swallowed by the tailings.
Also on the trip were her husband, Adriano Ribeiro da Silva, her stepdaughter, Camila Taliberti, and her stepson, Luiz Taliberti, who was also accompanied by his wife Fernanda Damian, five months pregnant. Everyone lost their lives in the episode.
In honor of Camila and Luiz, friends and family founded the Camila Institute and Luiz Taliberti (ICLT). Headquartered in São Paulo and chaired by the mother of the two brothers, Helena Taliberti, the entity aims to defend human rights and acts alongside Avabrum in the preservation of memory and in the collection for responses to the tragedy in Brumadinho.
The dam was part of a Vale mining complex in the city of Brumadinho (MG). The collapse of the structure on January 25, 2019 released an avalanche of tailings that left 270 people buried. Most were workers of the mining company itself or outsourced companies operating in the mine.
Avabrum counts 272 lost lives, considering the babies of two women who were pregnant. The episode also resulted in the destruction of communities and the environmental degradation of the Paraopeba river basin.
Six years
To this day, no one has been arrested for the breaking of the dam. The criminal proceedings, initially admitted in state court, was federalized and is currently the deadline for the defendants to present the defense.
Sixteen people had been denounced, among names associated with Vale and also to Tüv Süd, a German consultancy that signed the dam stability report. However, the former mining president, Fábio Schvartsman, Obtained last year A habeas corpus and left the condition as a defendant.
Two weeks ago, within the sixth anniversary of the tragedy, Avabrum coordinated an act to honor the loved ones and reiterate their struggle against impunity. In the act, was inaugurated the Memorial Brumadinho, designed to be a space for tribute and connection with the victims. The construction was a Family requirement of the dead.
