Brazil’s Bolsonaro Will Review Territories Set Aside for Indigenous People
- Nearly 14% of Brazil’s territory is reserved for indigenous
- Miners, loggers, speculators exerting pressure on reserves
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Brazil’s Jair Bolsonaro is doubling-down on his attack on indigenous territories, proposing a review of the reserves he says were created fraudulently.
“There’s a lot of land for few indians,” Bolsonaro told reporters Friday, using a word common in Brazil to refer to indigenous people. “My decision is to stop demarcating land for indians,” he said, adding that he suspected wrongdoing in the allocation of territories and that he believed the indigenous had sold land to foreigners. He offered no evidence for his claims.