{"id":17489,"date":"2019-06-19T19:34:31","date_gmt":"2019-06-19T19:34:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/conectas.org\/?post_type=noticia&#038;p=17489"},"modified":"2021-04-05T17:09:46","modified_gmt":"2021-04-05T17:09:46","slug":"bolsonaro-restores-responsibility-for-demarcation-of-indigenous-land-to-the-ministry-for-agriculture","status":"publish","type":"noticia","link":"https:\/\/conectas.org\/en\/noticias\/bolsonaro-restores-responsibility-for-demarcation-of-indigenous-land-to-the-ministry-for-agriculture\/","title":"Bolsonaro restores responsibility for demarcation of indigenous land to the Ministry for Agriculture","content":"<div class=\"tts_content_wrapper_1\" ><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Bolsonaro government issued a new provisional measure that transfers responsibility for the demarcation of indigenous land to the Ministry of Agriculture.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The norm, published in the <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/pesquisa.in.gov.br\/imprensa\/jsp\/visualiza\/index.jsp?data=19\/06\/2019&amp;jornal=515&amp;pagina=2\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Di\u00e1rio Oficial da Uni\u00e3o<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0on Wednesday (19), thwarts the National Congress\u2019s decision to delegate responsibility for the rights of indigenous people to the Ministry for Justice.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The reissue of the content of a provisional measure in the same legislative session is not allowed by the 1988 Federal Constitution, according to Art. 62, \u00a710, as was reiterated recently by the<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stf.jus.br\/portal\/cms\/verNoticiaDetalhe.asp?idConteudo=407029\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Federal Supreme Court<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In its insistence on making the Ministry for Agriculture responsible for indigenous rights, the Bolsonaro government is reaffirming its intention to suspend and reverse the process of demarcation of indigenous land in Brazil, in opposition to Art. 231 of the 1988 Federal Constitution.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cTheir insistence on giving the Ministry for Agriculture responsibility for demarcation of indigenous land, shows the current government\u2019s unwillingness to fulfil that which is set out in the Federal Constitution and puts the guarantee and fulfilment of indigenous rights in check, in the name of a vision of development that is detrimental to the people living in the forest.\u201d According to Caio Borges, Coordinator on the Conectas Programme for Development and Socioenvironmental Rights.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>An outline of attacks on indigenous people<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">On <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www1.folha.uol.com.br\/poder\/2018\/11\/no-que-depender-de-mim-nao-tem-mais-demarcacao-de-terra-indigena-diz-bolsonaro-a-tv.shtml\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">5 November 2018<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, in his role as president elect, Bolsonaro declared that, if it was up to him there would be no demarcation of indigenous land in Brazil.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">On\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jairbolsonaro\/status\/1080468589298229253\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">2 January 2019<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, Bolsonaro tweeted that 15% of Brazilian territory would be demarcated as indigenous or <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">quilombola <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">land and that, less than a million people would live on this land, \u201ctruly isolated from Brazil and exploited and manipulated by NGOs.\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">On\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.valor.com.br\/politica\/6202927\/bolsonaro-promete-rever-demarcacoes-e-quer-explorar-amazonia-com-eua\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">8 April 2019<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, the president stated that he would review the demarcation of indigenous land, saying that there was an \u201cindustry of demarcation\u201d that was making economic development projects impossible in the Amazon.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In addition to these revelations, there have also been attempts to\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/2IfDHCM\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">institutionally undermine FUNAI<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0\u2013 including recently firing the President of the organisation, the upshot of a\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/politica.estadao.com.br\/noticias\/geral,general-deixou-funai-por-incompetencia-diz-nabhan-garcia,70002873518\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">conflict of interests with the ruralist caucus<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u00a0\u2013\u00a0and new pockets of violence against indigenous people, including <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/2Ih8b7m\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">increased incursions on their territory<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to data from the CIMI (Indigenous Missionary Committee) since the election of the current government, <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/2IdZDhs\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">incursions into indigenous territory have increased by 150%<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. At the end of October 2018, a health centre and a school on Pankararu land, in Pernambuco, <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/2IkLnUl\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">were attacked by firebombs<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. In Mato Grosso do Sul, convoys of agricultural workers\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/2IdZDhs\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">shot at a guarani kaiow\u00e1 community<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Other reports of violence include in the\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/glo.bo\/2IeZDOh\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Arara Indigenous Territories, in Par\u00e1, and Arariboia, in Maranh\u00e3o<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, stormed in January by loggers and land grabbers who have been trying to set themselves up in demarcated areas. According to the <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/2Ify1Zt%3E\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Instituto Socioambiental<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, the Uru-Eu-Wau-Wau and Karipuna people, both in Rond\u00f4nia, have also reported new onslaughts by land grabbers on their territory. There have also been <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/2IkYLrt\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">reports of shootings<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0against the Guarani Mbya in Ponta do Arado, in Porto Alegre (RS). Recent information coming from the largest indigenous territory in the country, TI Ianom\u00e2mi, tells of an incursion by 20 thousand prospectors.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Denouncement to the OAS<\/b><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/conectas.org\/noticias\/conectas-vai-a-cidh-discutir-violacoes-de-direitos-humanos-por-empresas-nas-americas\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In a hearing at the InterAmerican Commission on Human Rights held in May 2019<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, Conectas \u2013\u00a0in partnership with the InterAmerican Association for Environmental Defence (AIDA), International Rivers, F\u00f3rum Teles Pires and Opera\u00e7\u00e3o Amaz\u00f4nia Nativa \u2013\u00a0denounced setbacks in the protection of the rights of Brazil\u2019s indigenous people, including measures that violate the preservation of the way of life of the indigenous people of Brazil, the transfer of key functions from the Ministry for the Environment to the Ministry of Agriculture and the threat of exposing indigenous land to the harmful effects of mining.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"tts__custom-position_bottom_fixed\" ><\/div>","excerpt":"<p>In a new attack on indigenous rights, the government goes against the Constitution and reissues provisional measure<\/p>\n","author":2,"featured_media":17488,"parent":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[7],"tags":[5747,383,12681,152,12662,5748],"tema":[12279],"class_list":["post-17489","noticia","type-noticia","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-demarcation-of-indigenous-land","tag-demarcation-of-indigenous-lands","tag-funai-en","tag-indigenous-people","tag-jair-bolsonaro-en","tag-ministry-of-agriculture-federal-supreme-court","tema-socioenvironmental-rights"],"acf":{"author":false,"subtitle-pt":"In a new attack on indigenous rights, the government goes against the Constitution and reissues provisional 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