When Macron decorates the cacique Raoni, global icon of the defense of the Amazon. On the first day of his state visit to Brazil on Tuesday, Emmanuel Macron presented the Legion of Honor to Native American leader Raoni.
The rest of the trip, the first by a French president in eleven years, will be devoted, from Rio to Brasilia via Sao Paulo, to defense, trade and the crises shaking the planet. He asks the two presidents to continue the process of returning “indigenous lands” to indigenous peoples – stopped under the populist Bolsonaro, who vilified Raoni as “foreign agent”