Bolsonaro says Serra do Sol Raposa reserve must be explored "rationally" | New Orleans hotels

Bolsonaro expresses on the subject when asked if he intends to review the reservation area at the exit of an event in Rio de Janeiro . He participated in the inauguration of the 3rd Military Police College of the State, in Duque de Caxias, in the Fluminense Baixada. The college called Percy Geraldo Bolsonaro, a tribute to his late father in 1995.

According to a report published Monday in the newspaper Valor Econômico, Jair Bolsonaro's team is preparing a decree to review the creation of the reserve. native

"It is the richest region of the world, you have to explore it rationally.On the Indian side, give royalties and integrate the Indian to society", said the elected president leaving the college inauguration.

The reserve area was identified in 1993 by Funai (National Indian Foundation) and approved in 2005 by a decree of former President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. The area of ​​Raposa Serra do Sol covers nearly 1.7 million hectares.

In 2009, the Federal Supreme Court (STF) recognized the validity of the ongoing demarcation of the reserve and ordered the immediate withdrawal of rice producers and non-Indian producers occupying the area. Farmers claimed to stay in the area at least until the end of this year's harvest. On occasion, the Court also established 19 rules on the demarcation of native lands in the country.

The question returned to the agenda of the Supreme Court in 2013, when it decided, in a new trial, to maintain that the criteria used by the Government for the demarcation of the indigenous reserve Raposa Serra do Sol were valid. ] The decision was made in the badysis of a series of appeals by farmers, Indians, the prosecution and parliamentarians against the 2009 lawsuit.