Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has vetoed the core parts of a bill backed by the country's powerful farm lobby that would have limited claims to ancestral lands to those lived on by 1988.
"The president vetoed everything that was unconstitutional and not consistent with our Indigenous peoples policy," his Institutional Relations Minister Alexandre Padilha announced.
Brazil's first Indigenous People Minister Sonia Guajajara, appointed by Lula, said the presidential veto was a big victory for the country's 1.6 million Indigenous people, who have strived to protect their land rights threatened by the advance of the agricultural frontier into the Amazon region. The number of land conflicts has increased with Brazil's rapidly expanding agriculture. Indigenous communities across the country claim land that farmers have settled and developed, in some cases for decades.
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