Bolsonaro assured that if justice rules in favor of indigenous land law, there will be food shortages in Brazil

Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro said Thursday that if the Federal Supreme Court rules in favor of the indigenous request to reject a controversial bill, which defends that they are only entitled to the territory they physically occupied until 1988, this will generate “food shortages” across the country.

“We believe that the Supreme Court should not reinterpret this bill, because if we start to have production problems, we will have problems in our trade balance ”, Bolsonaro said, according to UOL.

In this sense, he stated that “Food inflation, which does exist, will increase even more, generating something worse than inflation, which is scarcity.”

Indigenous peoples from 170 ethnic groups have been in the federal capital since Monday to protest what is known as the time frame or Bill 490, which defends Indigenous peoples are only entitled to the land they occupied. physically on October 5, 1988, the day the current Constitution came into force.

This Thursday, the trial which will determine whether this law goes forward has started and it is expected that next Wednesday the Supreme Court will render its decision, according to ‘G1’.

NGOs CALL FOR THE DEFENSE OF INDIGENOUS RIGHTS

Several organizations have urged the Brazilian Congress to reject the bill. The NGO Human Rights Watch said in a statement that if it goes ahead, “This would prevent or hinder many indigenous peoples from claiming their right to traditional lands, violating their rights under international law. “

Human Rights Watch associate director Anna Lívia Arida said that “approval of this bill would be one of the most significant setbacks in recognizing the rights of indigenous peoples to their traditional lands and resources since the return. to democracy in Brazil almost three decades ago ”.

“This comes at a time of extreme vulnerability for indigenous peoples, who face not only the invasion of their lands by miners and loggers, but also open hostility from the Bolsonaro administration.”, riveted.

For its part, the NGO Survival International reported that protests are taking place around the world against this measure. “The temporary setting poses a threat to hundreds of indigenous territories, hundreds of thousands of indigenous people and dozens of isolated indigenous peoples,” he said in a statement.

Survival International Director Caroline Pearce said “This is the most decisive court decision for the indigenous peoples of Brazil in decades.

“The judges of the Supreme Court must defend the Constitution which recognizes the original rights of the indigenous peoples on their lands as the first inhabitants of the country”, It’s finish.

(With information from Europa Press)

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