Brazil’s Congress approved a law on Thursday that threatens Indigenous people’s rights to most of the land they inhabit or claim, potentially opening vast territories to deforestation, farming and mining. The lawmakers overrode a veto by President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.

The new law requires that Indigenous people must provide concrete evidence that they occupied the land they claim on Oct. 5, 1988, when the country’s current Constitution was enacted — a requirement that many of them have little or no hope of meeting. https://nyti.ms/3RmzD7c

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