RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - (REUTERS) Brazil President Jair Bolsonaro promised a Yanomami community that he would respect their wishes to keep mining out of their reservation in the Amazon, though he said he would still seek access to other indigenous lands for commercial agriculture and mining.
In a video posted late on Sunday, May 30, on social media, the right-wing president was seen listening to local indigenous leaders in Maturacá, an Amazon village at the western end of the Yanomami reservation, Brazil’s largest, greater in area than Portugal.
In the meeting, which took place on Thursday, the leaders . . .
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