RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - (REUTERS) Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro visited two indigenous reservations in the Amazon on Thursday, May 27, for the first time as head of state, despite protests from some tribal leaders against his drive to open up their protected lands to commercial mining.
Bolsonaro, flanked by army officers and a Tukano chieftain with feather headdress, watched the local community perform a ritual dance at the Balaio reservation, where he inaugurated a wooden bridge.
The short wooden bridge was built by the Brazilian army on a road that runs to the border with Venezuela, passing through the. . .
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