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The Battle For Brazil s Indigenous Land Hots Up By Jordi MIRO
07/11/21 AT 9:36 PM
Brazil s indigenous peoples are bracing for a legal battle with far-right President Jair s Bolsonaro s government as it seeks to rush laws through parliament to carve away at their land.
Indigenous people, who represent some 0.5 percent of Brazil s population, hold about 13 percent of its land under ancestral rights guaranteed by the country s 1988 constitution.
These have been under threat ever since Bolsonaro came to power in 2019 on the promise of ceding not one centimeter more to Brazil s native population.
He has sought to open public land up for economic exploitation in one of the world s biggest agricultural producers, and several bills are before parliament seeking to achieve this.