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Brasilia, Feb 12 (EFE) .- Half a hundred indigenous people from different ethnic groups in Brazil protested on Wednesday against a bill presented by President Jair Bolsonaro which authorizes commercial mining in protected lands, a measure they consider the "worst of their nightmares".(CAMERA: Alex Mirkhan)SUPPORT IMAGES AND TRANSLATED DECLARATIONS BYJOENIA WAPICHANA, INDIGENOUS FEDERAL DEPUTY:"President Bolsonaro again wants to threaten indigenous lands and natural resources. Indigenous peoples want to raise this concern, asking the national congress to reject it due to the unconstitutionality and absurdities that this proposal brings"INGATÉ, KAINGANG INDIGENOUS:"He (Bolsonaro) is aware of what he is doing and does it out of spite. We have the right to our land. The land has always been ours, it has only been invaded, so we want to live well with the people who were born in this mother Earth"
Indigenous peoples from Amazon countries and members of social movements take part in the March of the Peoples of the Earth for the Amazon in Belem, as the northern Brazilian city hosts a two-day meeting of the Amazon Cooperation Treaty Organization (ACTO) to chart an ambitious roadmap to save the Amazon rainforest. IMAGES
Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro and his wife Michelle Bolsonaro attend the annual March for Jesus in Rio de Janeiro as the far-right leader campaigns for reelection. IMAGES
Brasilia, Sep 10 (EFE) (CAMERA: Alex Mirkhan) .- Thousands of indigenous women marched Friday in Brasilia, the capital of Brazil, where they raised their voices for the rights of indigenous peoples.
Thousands of women take to the streets of Sao Paulo to protest against right-wing frontrunner Jair Bolsonaro. IMAGES
French President Emmanuel Macron and his Brazilian counterpart Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva meet with Indigenous leader of the Kayapo people, Raoni Metuktire, on the island of Combu off the coast of Belem, in the Brazilian Amazon. Macron has promised to discuss closer cooperation in the fight against illegal gold mining with Brazil, where he begins an emblematic state visit lasting almost three days following his trip to French Guiana. IMAGES
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