Tag Archives | Indigenous people of Brazil

Destruction of the Amazon Package approved with urgency

Originally published: Resumen: Latinoamericano and the Third World on March 15, 2022 by Elaine Tavares (more by Resumen: Latinoamericano and the Third World) (Posted Mar 17, 2022)

The Brazilian government remains firm in its objective of handing over indigenous lands, which make up 12% of Brazilian territory, to private hands, preferably agribusiness and mining.
Indigenous People of Brazil fight for their future

Originally published: Independent Media Institute - Globetrotter on September 17, 2021 by Nick Estes (more by Independent Media Institute - Globetrotter) (Posted Sep 22, 2021)

Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has given new license to the killing of Indigenous people in Brazil. Before he came to power in 2019, it wasn’t clear what he wanted to build, but he knew exactly who and what he wanted to destroy: the Indigenous people and the Amazon rainforest, respectively.