Thousands march in Brasilia against president's policies which are expected to threaten reserve lands.
Thousands of people representing the more than 300 tribes native to Brazil marched to government offices in Brasilia on Friday to protest the policies of right-wing President Jair Bolsonaro that threaten their reservation lands.
“Our families are in danger, our children are under threat, our people are being attacked. In the name of what they call economic progress they want to kill our people,” said David Karai Popygua, an ethnic Guarani Mbya from the state of Sao Paulo. One of his first measures on taking office on Jan 1 was to dismantle the indigenous affairs agency Funai, handing reservation demarcation decisions to the Agriculture Ministry that is controlled by farming interests.
Brazil has more than 850,000 indigenous people that make up less than one percent of its population. They live on reservations that make up about 13 percent of the country’s territory.
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