{"id":18434,"date":"2019-09-24T16:33:36","date_gmt":"2019-09-24T16:33:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/conectas.org\/?post_type=noticia&#038;p=18434"},"modified":"2021-04-05T14:11:29","modified_gmt":"2021-04-05T14:11:29","slug":"bolsonaro-presents-a-retrograde-new-brazil-at-the-un","status":"publish","type":"noticia","link":"https:\/\/conectas.org\/en\/noticias\/bolsonaro-presents-a-retrograde-new-brazil-at-the-un\/","title":"Bolsonaro presents a retrograde \u2018new Brazil\u2019 at the UN","content":"<div class=\"tts_content_wrapper_1\" ><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">At the opening ceremony of the United Nations General Assembly in New York, on Tuesday 24 September, President Jair Bolsonaro gave a combative speech opposing indigenous rights, NGOs, the press and other countries.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The United Nations\u2019 most important platform for debate was used by the president as a stage for propagating a distorted paternalistic view of the indigenous peoples. He also declared the end of the process of protecting land, in front of all the nations of the world.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cI want to make it clear that Brazil is not going to increase the protected area of indigenous land by 20%, as some chiefs of state would like,\u201d the president stated. \u201c<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Unfortunately, some people both inside and outside Brazil, supported by NGOs, have stubbornly insisted on treating and keeping our Indians as if they are real cavemen<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.itamaraty.gov.br\/pt-BR\/discursos-artigos-e-entrevistas-categoria\/presidente-da-republica-federativa-do-brasil-discursos\/20890-discurso-do-presidente-jair-bolsonaro-na-abertura-da-74-assembleia-geral-das-nacoes-unidas-nova-york-24-de-setembro-de-2019\"><b>Read Bolsonaro\u2019s speech at the UN<\/b><\/a><b> in full<\/b><b>.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><b>For further reading:\u00a0<\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/conectas.org\/noticias\/dez-acoes-do-governo-bolsonaro-que-prejudicaram-a-imagem-do-brasil-na-onu\"><b>Ten actions by the Bolsonaro Government that have damaged Brazil\u2019s reputation at the UN<\/b><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Bolsonaro also attacked the historical leadership of Raoni Metuktire, of the Kayapo indigenous group, recognised worldwide for his fight to defend traditional people and Amaz\u00f4nia. He also criticised the demarcation of the Yanomami and Raposa Serra do Sol indigenous territories, validated in 1992 and 2005, respectively.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cOften leaders like Chief Raoni are used for scheming foreign governments in their information war, to advance their interests in the Amazon.\u201d Said Bolsonaro, who included an indigenous man, Ysany Kalapalo, who makes You Tube videos, in his delegation, to support Brazilian indigenous policy.\u00a0\u201c<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The indigenous people do not want to be poor, large landholders sitting on rich lands\u2026especially sitting on the world\u2019s richest lands<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. This is case of the Yanomami and Raposa Serra do Sol. There are huge resources of gold, diamonds, uranium, niobium and rare soils, among others on these reserves.\u201d He added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to Camila Asano, Programme Coordinator at Conectas Human Rights, Bolsonaro is distorting arguments about the autonomy of the indigenous people in order to deny rights that the Constitution guarantees.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cIn contravention of the Constitution, the president categorically states that he will not promote new demarcations of indigenous territory.\u201d Asano said. \u201cMoreover, it is very serious that the president has used the UN General Assembly as a platform to attack an indigenous leader and threaten the legal security of the Yanomami and Raposa Serra do Sol territories.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The inclusion of Kalapalo in the Brazilian delegation\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/oglobo.globo.com\/sociedade\/caciques-de-14-povos-do-xingu-protestam-contra-indigena-convidada-por-bolsonaro-para-ir-onu-23968380\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">provoked an outcry among the leaders of fourteen Xingu <\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">communities<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0for disrespecting the \u201cindigenous people\u2019s autonomy to decide and recommend who should represent them.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Isolationist Policy<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In an attempt to repair Brazil\u2019s international reputation following the fires in Amaz\u00f4nia, the president attacked the media and called the international press coverage of this dishonest and sensationalist.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Going against the tide of the spirit of multilateralism, Bolsonaro has abandoned diplomatic decorum, voiced attacks on Cuba and Venezuela and made a number of insinuations about France and other European countries, further isolating Brazil on the political scenario.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThe \u2018new Brazil\u2019 announced by Bolsonaro in his speech is retrograde, stuck in the outdated model of the Cold War and a fundamentalist view of gender and sexuality.\u201d Said Asano. \u201cIf his objective was to win back the world\u2019s confidence, as he said at the beginning his speech, the result was to further tarnish Brazil\u2019s international credibility.\u201d She said.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"tts__custom-position_bottom_fixed\" ><\/div>","excerpt":"<p>The United Nations\u2019 most important arena for debate was used as the stage for propagating a distorted paternalistic view of indigenous people<\/p>\n","author":2,"featured_media":18432,"parent":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[7],"tags":[12409,380,101,108],"tema":[12278],"class_list":["post-18434","noticia","type-noticia","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-bolsonaro-en","tag-un","tag-un-general-assembly","tag-united-nations","tema-democracy-and-human-rights-movement"],"acf":{"author":false,"subtitle-pt":"The United Nations\u2019 most important arena for debate was used as the stage for propagating a distorted paternalistic view of indigenous people"},"yoast":{"focuskw":"","title":"","metadesc":"","linkdex":"","metakeywords":"","meta-robots-noindex":"","meta-robots-nofollow":"","meta-robots-adv":"","canonical":"","redirect":"","opengraph-title":"","opengraph-description":"","opengraph-image":"","twitter-title":"","twitter-description":"","twitter-image":""},"featured_image":{"original":"https:\/\/conectas.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/photo4922951082032867344-1024x682-1.jpg","thumbnail":"https:\/\/conectas.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/photo4922951082032867344-1024x682-1-150x150.jpg","medium":"https:\/\/conectas.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/photo4922951082032867344-1024x682-1-300x200.jpg","medium_large":"https:\/\/conectas.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/photo4922951082032867344-1024x682-1-768x512.jpg","large":"https:\/\/conectas.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/photo4922951082032867344-1024x682-1-1024x682.jpg","1536x1536":"https:\/\/conectas.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/photo4922951082032867344-1024x682-1.jpg","2048x2048":"https:\/\/conectas.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/photo4922951082032867344-1024x682-1.jpg","post_slider_img":"https:\/\/conectas.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/photo4922951082032867344-1024x682-1.jpg","storyform_xlarge":"https:\/\/conectas.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/photo4922951082032867344-1024x682-1.jpg","storyform_xxlarge":"https:\/\/conectas.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/photo4922951082032867344-1024x682-1.jpg","storyform_xxxlarge":"https:\/\/conectas.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/photo4922951082032867344-1024x682-1.jpg","noticia":"https:\/\/conectas.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/photo4922951082032867344-1024x682-1.jpg"},"terms":{"acoes_categorias":[],"acoes_tags":[],"category":[{"term_id":7,"name":"News","slug":"news","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":7,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":1550,"filter":"raw","term_order":"0","permalink":"https:\/\/conectas.org\/en\/category\/news\/","relative_link":"category\/news\/","langs":{"en":"news","br":"noticia-conectas"}}],"post_tag":[{"term_id":12409,"name":"Bolsonaro","slug":"bolsonaro-en","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":12409,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":37,"filter":"raw","term_order":"0","permalink":"https:\/\/conectas.org\/en\/tag\/bolsonaro-en\/","relative_link":"tag\/bolsonaro-en\/","langs":{"en":"bolsonaro-en","br":null}},{"term_id":380,"name":"UN","slug":"un","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":380,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":104,"filter":"raw","term_order":"0","permalink":"https:\/\/conectas.org\/en\/tag\/un\/","relative_link":"tag\/un\/","langs":{"en":"un","br":null}},{"term_id":101,"name":"UN General Assembly","slug":"un-general-assembly","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":101,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":9,"filter":"raw","term_order":"0","permalink":"https:\/\/conectas.org\/en\/tag\/un-general-assembly\/","relative_link":"tag\/un-general-assembly\/","langs":{"en":"un-general-assembly","br":"assembleia-geral-da-onu"}},{"term_id":108,"name":"United Nations","slug":"united-nations","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":108,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":247,"filter":"raw","term_order":"0","permalink":"https:\/\/conectas.org\/en\/tag\/united-nations\/","relative_link":"tag\/united-nations\/","langs":{"en":"united-nations","br":"onu"}}]},"author_name":"Leonardo Medeiros","author_nicename":"leonardo-medeiros","protected":false,"langs":{"en":"bolsonaro-presents-a-retrograde-new-brazil-at-the-un","br":"onu-bolsonaro-novo-brasil-retrogrado"},"permalink":"https:\/\/conectas.org\/en\/noticias\/bolsonaro-presents-a-retrograde-new-brazil-at-the-un\/","relative_url":"https:\/\/conectas.org\/en\/noticias\/bolsonaro-presents-a-retrograde-new-brazil-at-the-un\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/conectas.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/noticias\/18434","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/conectas.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/noticias"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/conectas.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/noticia"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conectas.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conectas.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18434"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conectas.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/conectas.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conectas.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conectas.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18434"},{"taxonomy":"tema","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conectas.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tema?post=18434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}