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Brazil election sparks threats to reinvade Indigenous Amazon territory

MONGABAY · Aimee Gabay ·

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A federal judge issued an emergency order on Oct. 23 to deploy federal security forces to the Apyterewa Indigenous Land in Brazil’s Pará state. The order came after new evidence emerged that hundreds of former non-Indigenous occupants planned to reinvade the territory on Oct. 25, the day of Brazil’s presidential runoff election. The court order […]

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