Brazil’s Ministry of Justice is sending more law enforcement agents to Mato Grosso do Sul state after clashes between Indigenous peoples and farmers over the weekend.
Smoke billows behind Indigenous families as part of attacks on the Guarani Kaiowa ethnicity on Panambi Lagoa Rica Indigenous land in Douradina, Mato Grosso do Sul state, Brazil, Saturday, Aug. 3, 2024. The Indigenous people allege that farmers are responsible for the attack to discourage them from recuperating land.
Five of the injured were taken by ambulance to a nearby hospital, where doctors found three had been shot by firearms and two wounded by rubber bullets, a ministry statement said.Officials said that in the second incident a fire was set, tear gas used and four gunshots heard, although the perpetrator could not be identified. It said at least one farmer was injured.
The Guarani Kaiowa “have been sleeping under the lights of trucks for two weeks," Santos said. “Every night these trucks line up in front of them, turn on the lights and spend the whole night with the lights on under their camp.” , but his move was overridden by Congress. The influential agribusiness sector, which opposes the demands by Indigenous communities for more territory, has the support of hundreds of Congress members and several governors.
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