James Barrett on Nostr: Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has vetoed the core parts of a bill ...
Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has vetoed the core parts of a bill backed by the country's powerful farm lobby that would have limited claims to ancestral lands where Indigenous people have lived by 1988.
Brazil's first Indigenous People Minister Sonia Guajajara, appointed by Lula, said the veto was a big victory for the country's 1.6 million Indigenous people, who have strived to protect their land rights threatened by the advance of the agricultural frontier into the Amazon region.
"The important thing is that Indigenous rights are guaranteed by the veto," she said at a news conference with Padilha after a meeting with Lula to decide the matter.
https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/brazils-lula-vetoes-bill-restricting-indigenous-land-claims-2023-10-20/
Brazil's first Indigenous People Minister Sonia Guajajara, appointed by Lula, said the veto was a big victory for the country's 1.6 million Indigenous people, who have strived to protect their land rights threatened by the advance of the agricultural frontier into the Amazon region.
"The important thing is that Indigenous rights are guaranteed by the veto," she said at a news conference with Padilha after a meeting with Lula to decide the matter.
https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/brazils-lula-vetoes-bill-restricting-indigenous-land-claims-2023-10-20/