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Judi Lynn

(160,630 posts) Fri Apr 3, 2020, 10:52 AM Apr 2020

Brazil: Amazon land defender Zezico Guajajara shot dead

Brazil: Amazon land defender Zezico Guajajara shot dead
2 April 2020

ZEZICO GUAJAJARA

Zezico Guajajara is the fifth Amazon forest protector to be killed in six months
A member of a protected tribe in the Amazon has been killed by gunmen, authorities in the Brazilian state of Maranhao say.

The body of Zezico Guajajara, of the Guajajara tribe, was found near his village on Tuesday. He had been shot.

The former teacher was a supporter of Guardians of the Forest, a group formed to combat logging gangs in the area.

The killing - the fifth in six months - increases concerns about violence against Amazon forest protectors.

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https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-52135362

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Never forget fascist Bolsonaro's comments on his envy for the US' history of genocide: Judi Lynn Apr 2020 #1

Judi Lynn

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1. Never forget fascist Bolsonaro's comments on his envy for the US' history of genocide:

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Fri Apr 3, 2020, 11:06 AM

Apr 2020

“THE BRAZILIAN CAVALRY was very incompetent. Competent, yes, was the American cavalry that decimated its Indians in the past and nowadays does not have this problem in their country.” That’s the opinion of Brazil’s far-right President Jair Bolsonaro, expressed on the floor of Congress in 1998. His views appear to have changed little since then; in a video message to supporters 18 years later, he promised to revoke the protected status of an Indigenous reserve in 2019 and in the next breath added, “We’re going to give a rifle and a carry permit to every farmer.”

https://theintercept.com/2019/02/16/brazil-bolsonaro-indigenous-land/

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