Leftist Brazilian presidential front-runner Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva on Monday promised to end illegal gold mining if he is elected.
In April da Silva also committed to creating a Ministry of Indigenous Peoples, explaining that"someone will have to take over the ministry and it won't be a white man like me, it will have to be an Indian."
On Monday da Silva said the new ministry would reestablish the norms and institutions that have been under relentless assault by Bolsonaro, a climate skeptic who has called himself"Captain Chainsaw." Bolsonaro supports a series of bills advancing through the National Congress that, if passed, would allow mining on Indigenous lands, relax restrictions on the use of pesticides, and, according to opponents, greenlight illegal logging and land seizures.
Sônia Guajajara, a member of the Guajajara people and a candidate for the Chamber of Deputies—the lower house of Congress—representing the Socialism and Liberty Party ,"Bolsonaro's incentive to illegal mining has exacerbated violence against the Indigenous peoples," she added,Illegal miners are responsible for frequent—and sometimes deadly—attacks on Indigenous people and communities.
at least two Yanomami men opposing mining were shot dead and numerous others were injured by members of a pro-mining group of Tirei people, who were
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