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Bolsonaro Tries Again to Give Control Over Indigenous Land to Agriculture Ministry

By Xiu Ying

RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - President Jair Bolsonaro has issued a new Provisional Measure (MP) to shift responsibility for delimiting indigenous lands to the Ministry of Agriculture. The text was published in the Federal Gazette on Wednesday, June 19th, one day after the publication of the law changing the administrative structure of the federal government.

In January, a prior MP changing the ministerial structure had already shifted the responsibility for definng indigenous lands . . .

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