Brazil, Conflict and indigenous rights in Brazil today (pt)

Terenas refuse to abide by the order of the judiciary and decide to enforce their rights, 
materializing the tension between models of Brazilian agriculture and ancestry of the 
native peoples. ---- The murder of Brazilian nationality Terena, Oziel Gabriel, occurred 
in the municipality of Sidrol?ndia (MS) last May 30, is another episode of an ongoing 
conflict that much of urban Brazil continues to deny. Beyond the struggle for control of 
ancestral lands, what is at stake is the condition of Brazilian society behave in other 
forms of collective life. ---- Unfortunately, our country does not have a mass of native 
population, even mistakenly called Indians. If we had the demographic profile of countries 
like Mexico, Colombia, Peru, Bolivia and Ecuador, surely an episode as occurred on the 
farm Buriti result in national outcry.

It was not the first and nor will it be the last clash between farmers - especially in the 
primary sector entrepreneurs - and indigenous nations. In the same region, another land 
dispute led to episodes of collective suicide of the nation Guarani-Kaiow?. 
Simultaneously, the voltage at the construction site of the Belo Monte Dam shows that 
disputes over land ownership, and land use, brings into play the conditions of existence 
and preservation of these cultures.

To understand the dispute, just quickly check some flags of the Association of Indigenous 
Peoples of Brazil (APIB). In their basic demands, include immediate demarcation of 
indigenous lands; approval of the New Statute of Indigenous Peoples, which implies PECs 
curb and complementary laws that violate the rights recognized in the Constitution of 
1988, implementation of Convention 169 (ILO) and the UN Declaration ensuring consultation 
and democratic about decisions affecting indigenous rights, and partaking in official 
bodies by equal representation in decision-making of these rights.

The very APIB elevates the status of this fight, because when generating the 
self-representation, beyond the condition of tutelage and delegation indirectly through 
entities such as the Indigenous Missionary Council (CIMI) and contradictions in the 
permanent National Indian Foundation (FUNAI). The flags of this joint claim the existence 
and full development as nations within a nation state created from the genocide of those 
who lived here for kidnapping and enslavement of african descent.

Setting these accounts is not easy nor cheap. Shortly after the Brazilian indigenous 
peoples hone their self-organization, from 2005, put in check the development projects and 
productivity at all costs.

Bruno Lima Rocha

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