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Judi Lynn

(160,527 posts)
Tue Dec 18, 2018, 03:09 AM Dec 2018

Indigenous leader urges EU to impose sanctions on Brazil

Indigenous leader urges EU to impose sanctions on Brazil
Europe told if it does not act it will be ‘turning blind eye to genocide’ under Bolsonaro
Arthur Neslen
Tue 18 Dec 2018 01.00 EST

Brazil’s foremost indigenous leader has called on the EU to impose trade sanctions to prevent ecological disaster and a “social extermination” by her country’s far-right president-elect, who takes office on 1 January.

Jair Bolsonaro has terrified indigenous communities by promising to take every centimetre of their land, designate rights activists as “terrorists” and carve a motorway through the Amazon, which could deforest an area larger than Germany.

Sônia Guajajara, the leader of Articulação dos Povos Indígenas do Brasil (APBI) which represents more than 300 Brazilian indigenous groups, said: “We are afraid of a new genocide against the indigenous population and we are not going to wait for it to happen. We will resist. We will defend our territories, and our lives.”

Before his election, Bolsonaro, an admirer of Brazil’s military dictators, called for minorities to bow to the majority will or disappear. He once said: “It’s a shame that the Brazilian cavalry wasn’t as efficient as the Americans, who exterminated their Indians.”

More:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/dec/18/indigenous-leader-urges-eu-to-impose-sanctions-on-brazil

LBN:
https://www.democraticunderground.com/10142225468

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Indigenous leader urges EU to impose sanctions on Brazil (Original Post) Judi Lynn Dec 2018 OP
I tend to agree ... this Trump-styled Fascist Bolsonaro sounds like a greedy, genocidal maniac mr_lebowski Dec 2018 #1
 

mr_lebowski

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1. I tend to agree ... this Trump-styled Fascist Bolsonaro sounds like a greedy, genocidal maniac
Tue Dec 18, 2018, 03:28 AM
Dec 2018

Just another reason we're going to need to win in 2020 ... this guy is going to need to be stopped. I don't care if he was 'democratically elected' until we found out how many Rubles, and global multi-national $$$, poured into this assholes campaign.

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