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The Latest: Brazil leader criticizes indigenous reserves
Updated 10:05 pm CDT, Tuesday, August 27, 2019
JACUNDA NATIONAL FOREST, Brazil (AP) — The Latest on the fires burning in Brazil's Amazon region (all times local):
2:55 p.m.
Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro is criticizing his country's indigenous protection policies, which he says are used by outside forces to limit Brazil's economy and give excessive amounts of land to tribes.
Bolsonaro met Tuesday with governors of states in the Amazon region to discuss the fires in the region and listened to them complaining about indigenous reserves, saying they impede development.
Bolsonaro said that "many reserves are located strategically" and said "someone arranged this."
He didn't specify what outside forces might be involved.
The president said that indigenous peoples "don't speak our language, but they have managed to get 14% of our national territory" and he added, "One of the intentions of this is to impair us."
More:
https://www.chron.com/news/science/article/The-Latest-Macron-shrugs-off-Brazil-rejection-of-14381006.php
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