In what can be seen as a historic victory for the South American country’s original inhabitants, Brazil’s supreme court has blocked an attempt to drastically strip back Indigenous land rights.
As reported in The Guardian, “Nine of the court’s 11 members voted against what rights groups had dubbed the “time limit trick” – an agribusiness-backed attempt to prevent Indigenous communities claiming land they did not physically occupy in 1988… …Many Indigenous groups were driven from their ancestral lands during Brazil’s 21-year military dictatorship which ended in 1985.”
