Bolsonaro says that there will be no more indigenous lands demarcations

In a meeting with journalists, president Bolsonaro declared that his administration will not demarcate any new indigenous land during his government. “It is our initiative, it is our prerogative…Who decides at the end of the line it’s me, I am the one who signs the demarcation decree. I won’t sign off on any new indigenous reservation in Brazil”, he declared. He also criticised the size of indigenous territories, citing as an example that the Yanomami territory is twice as big as the city of Rio de Janeiro for “only 9,000 indigenous”. He claimed that this can not be normal and blamed it on “external pressure”, highlighting that all indigenous lands are demarcated on “rich lands”. When questioned about the Amazon Synod planned by the Vatican for the second semester of the year, president Bolsonaro replied that he worries about what decisions will be made because “they want to steal the Amazon from Brazil”. He went further mentioning a plan called “the triple A, 136 million hectares, from the Andes - Amazon - Atlantic. A huge strip of land under international jurisdiction with the excuse of preserving the environment. What they want is to steal our Amazon and people don’t realize that. The international press says that I want to destroy the Amazon, but I want the Amazon for ourselves.”