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Bolsonaro’s hand in the Amazon’s fate is not just a pro-business or anti-climate calling—it’s a racial issue, also., an academic and scholar of Brazilian history, wrote to me that Bolsonaro’s Amazonian preferences go hand in hand with contempt for Indigenous Brazilians and their rights.
Bolsonaro and his backers want to shrink Indigenous land share even further. The Catholic Church found that in 2020, the second year of the president’s term, there was a 61 percent increase in murders of Indigenous Brazilians over the previous year, and. Bolsonaro doesn’t seem to care. “The 1988 constitution turned the tide on the dictatorship’s narrative that the Indigenous need to be pushed out for development,” Fox said.
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