{"id":15674,"date":"2019-04-27T07:59:48","date_gmt":"2019-04-27T11:59:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/english.cpnn-world.org\/?p=15674"},"modified":"2019-04-27T08:02:10","modified_gmt":"2019-04-27T12:02:10","slug":"brazils-indigenous-tribes-protest-bolsonaro-assimilation-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.cpnn-world.org\/?p=15674","title":{"rendered":"Brazil’s indigenous tribes protest Bolsonaro assimilation plan"},"content":{"rendered":"
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. . SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT . .<\/p>\n

An article from Thomson Reuters<\/a> (reprinted by permission)<\/p>\n

Thousands of people representing the more than 300 tribes native to Brazil marched to government offices in Brasilia on Friday [April 26] to protest the policies of right-wing President Jair Bolsonaro that threaten their reservation lands.<\/p>\n

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\nIndigenous people attend a protest to defend indigenous land and cultural rights that they say are threatened by the right-wing government of Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro, in Brasilia, Brazil, April 26, 2019. REUTERS\/Adriano Machado<\/center><\/p>\n

Wearing body paint and headdresses made with the colorful feathers of Amazon birds, they brandished bows and arrows and beat drums while chanting resistance songs. The march comes at the end of a three-day rally in the Brazilian capital called the Free Land Encampment.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur families are in danger, our children are under threat, our people are being attacked. In the name of what they call economic progress they want to kill our people,\u201d said David Karai Popygua, an ethnic Guarani Mbya from the state of Sao Paulo.<\/p>\n

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Indigenous peoples, Are they the true guardians of nature?<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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Bolsonaro, a former army captain turned politician, was elected in October with the support of Brazil\u2019s farm sector that has pushed for access to more land and fewer environmental controls. They also want him to ease gun possession laws.
\nOne of his first measures on taking office on Jan. 1 was to dismantle the indigenous affairs agency FUNAI, handing reservation demarcation decisions to the Agriculture Ministry that is controlled by farming interests.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is an embarrassment for our country to have a government that does not understand the struggle of indigenous peoples and has no knowledge at all of the indigenous population,\u201d said Daran, a Tupi Guarani chieftain.<\/p>\n

Brazil has more than 850,000 indigenous people that make up less than 1 percent of its population. They live on reservations that make up about 13 percent of the country\u2019s territory.<\/p>\n

Bolsonaro has said that is too much land for so few people and has vowed to review some reservation borders. He says they live poorly and wants to assimilate them by allowing large-scale farming and commercial mining on reservations.<\/p>\n

The government did not immediately comment on the protests.<\/p>\n

The country\u2019s Supreme Court on Thursday denied an injunction sought by the Brazilian Socialist Party to stop the transfer of indigenous land decisions to the agriculture ministry. Hundreds of tribal people protested outside the building.<\/p>\n

Sonia Guajajara, national coordinator of Brazil\u2019s Association of Indigenous Peoples, told Reuters that land invasions and other attacks on tribes by illegal miners and loggers had increased since Bolsonaro took office.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey say that they have been authorized to occupy indigenous land,\u201d she said. \u201cWe are here to oppose mining, hydroelectric and agribusiness companies that destroy tribal communities and Mother Nature.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have resisted for five centuries and we are not going to surrender in four years. We will continue fighting,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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