photo..Amazon: A gold mine swallowed their village. This tribe is here to take it back
Brazil’s Bolsonaro says bill to open indigenous reserves to mining, agriculture ready
partly by Cecilia Jamasmie , shared with thanks
Bolsonaro has vowed to assimilate the country’s 800,000 indigenous people — less than 1% of the total population — into Brazilian society.
“The Brazilian president has called on native communities to be included in society, alluding that they have been unfairly forced to live apart in misery.” That is, stop being yourself; some lazy, lousy and miserable savages, and become citizens of the society of capitalism.

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Bolsonaro says it, but this racist, ethnocentric, simplifying and energetically false vision of this type of societies has many people disagreeing and the bill will hopefully have big problems in Congress in February.
Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro said on Thursday that a controversial bill allowing mining, agriculture and cattle farms on protected indigenous reserves was ready to be sent to Congress for consideration.
Bolsonaro again claimed indigenous culture, which has cared for the Amazon for millenia, is mere superstition and that they are kept in poverty and forced to be separate and invited them to integrate, ranch cattle and mine the disappearing forest.

This follows his UN intervention in the same vein, which drew the following reaction.. “Bolsonaro’s speech is outrageous, undemocratic, racist, and deeply violent against the indigenous peoples of Brazil and the great indigenous leader Raoni, internationally recognized for his contribution to the preservation of the Amazon.








