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Bolsonaro unleashes the wrath of indigenous rights activists: “Increasingly, the indigenous is being human like us”

2020-01-25T03:40:09.069Z


President Jair Bolsonaro delivered the controversial words when he announced the creation of the Amazon Council in Brazil. Following their statements, indigenous organizations and legislators ...


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(CNN Spanish) - During a Facebook Live broadcast this Thursday, Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro talked about the creation of the Amazon Council and how he will protect the resources of the jungle and indigenous lands, when he stated that “the Indian changed "And added:" More and more the Indian is a human being like us. So, let the Indian integrate more and more into society and really be the owner of his indigenous land. This is what we want here. ”

In response, the Executive Coordinator of the Articulation of Indigenous Peoples of Brazil, Sonia Guajajara, warned that she will sue Jair Bolsonaro for racism, although she did not detail when.

“We, the indigenous peoples, originating in this land, demand respect! Bolsonaro once again breaks the Constitution by denying our existence as human beings. It is necessary to say enough to this perverse! ”, Tweeted Guajajara.

A @apiboficial will enter na justiça against Jair Bolsonaro for the crime of racism. We, indigenous povos, original desta terra, we demand respect! Bolsonaro once again tears up Constituição ao deny us of existence in human beings. It is necessary to give enough to be perverse!

- Sonia Guajajara (@GuajajaraSonia) January 24, 2020

“@ApibOficial will sue Jair Bolsonaro for the crime of racism. We, the indigenous peoples, originating in this land, demand respect! Bolsonaro once again breaks the Constitution by denying our existence as human beings. It is necessary to say enough to this perverse! ”.

Bolsonaro's statements were not only criticized by indigenous organizations. Numerous users on social networks also reacted by rejecting their expressions. Several opposition lawmakers also questioned the message the president was trying to give.

"The vision that Bolsonaro has about the natives is a colonial, medieval, hierarchical and dehumanization vision," the deputy of the Federal District for the Workers Party, Erika Kokay, posted on Twitter.

A visão that Bolsonaro feared two indigenous and a colonialist, medieval, hierarchy and desumanização visão. That late agreement is justifying or genocide and indigenous epistemicide. pic.twitter.com/6D3HkAsqty

- Erika Kokay (@erikakokay) January 24, 2020

The office of the presidency in the Planalto Palace declined to comment.

The creation of the Amazon Council

The president of Brazil announced the creation of the council on Tuesday through Twitter. Bolsonaro explained that the office of the Vice Presidency will be in charge of the new agency, which will coordinate actions from different ministries for the protection, defense and sustainable development of the Amazon.

- Determine the criação do Conselho da Amazônia, to be co-ordinated hair Vice President @ General Morao, using its own structure, and which is intended to coordinate various services in each ministry turned to protection, defense and sustainable development of Amazônia.

- Jair M. Bolsonaro (@jairbolsonaro) January 21, 2020

Among the measures announced by the president, there is also the creation of the National Environmental Force for the Protection of the Jungle.

A relationship with ups and downs

This is not the first time there is a controversy about the relationship between the president and the indigenous peoples of Brazil.

Shortly after taking office, Bolsonaro signed a decree granting the Ministry of Agriculture the responsibility of certifying indigenous lands as protected territories.

About 13% of Brazil is legally designated as indigenous land, most of which is in the Amazon and is reserved for the country's 900,000 indigenous people (less than 0.5% of the population).

Several indigenous groups said the president's order would lead to "an increase in deforestation and violence against indigenous peoples."

Bolsonaro, who has been called in some political circles the "Trump of the tropics," defended that decision at the time, tweeting that: "Less than one million people live in these places, isolated from true Brazil, exploited and manipulated by NGOs Together we will integrate these citizens. ”

Its business-friendly policies in the Amazon have recently been attacked for encouraging deforestation, as massive forest fires now devastate large areas of the rainforest.

On January 14, important indigenous leaders of Brazil opened a four-day meeting in the Amazon to join in their fight against the president's policies.

Indigenous peoples from different Amazonian tribes and representatives of the Articulation of Indigenous Peoples of Brazil participated in this meeting.

Alessandra Castelli in Atlanta and Marcos Moreno in Brazil contributed to this report

Source: cnnespanol

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