Minister of Indigenous Peoples Sonia Guajajara attends a ritual dance during the third March of Indigenous Women, in defence of women's rights, local indigenous people and the environment in Brasilia, Brazil, on Sep 13, 2023. BRASILIA: Brazil's first Indigenous cabinet minister is urging President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva to veto a bill pushed through Congress by the farm lobby that she and Indigenous leaders warn would undermine ancestral land rights and threaten their way of life.
Indigenous Affairs Minister Sonia Guajajara told Reuters she is pushing the president not to sign the bill. The largest umbrella organization of Brazil's Indigenous People is campaigning on social media urging Lula to veto the whole bill. Brazil's Agriculture Minister Carlos Favaro, from the centrist Social Democratic Party in Lula's minority government coalition, is hoping for a negotiated solution.
"For sure the core of the bill, the 1988 cut-off date, will have to be vetoed because it is unconstitutional," a source in the president's office said."If not, the Supreme Court will overturn it and the conflict will worsen." Lawmakers appended other anti-Indigenous proposals, she said, so the bill allows commercial mining and farming on reservations, including the use of genetically modified crops, and leasing land to non-Indigenous farmers, which is now banned.
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