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April 26, 2024

Indigenous Leaders Fight for Land Rights and Their Survival in Brasília
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In Brazil, thousands of Indigenous leaders have been rallying in
Brasília this week, calling on the government to recognize their
ancestral lands and enforce stronger protections against illegal mining
and other forms of exploitation. Protesters also denounced plans to
build a railway that would transport grains across Brazil's farming
states to ports in the Amazon rainforest. A group of Indigenous leaders
met with Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, while others
gathered outside government buildings.

Mana Shanenawa: "In the past, we died by the knife, the bullet. And
today we die by the pen, by making laws, by the law and taking away our
rights. This is a huge genocide that can happen within our nation,
within the people, because our Indigenous land is life. For us, it is
forest and life."



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