Bolsonaro publishes measure that fosters illegal land grabbing

President Jair Bolsonaro issued provisional measure 910/19 that allows concession and regularization of titles to public land grabbers and invaders. Among the proposals, the access to titles without previous inspections in lands up to 1400 hectares in some Amazon municipalities, as well as authorizing invaders to become owners of lands grabbed until December 2018. For the measure to become law in effect, it needs to be voted by the House of Representatives in a 120 day timeframe. In an interview with Deutsche Welle - Brazil, Raul Valle, a director for social environmental justice for WWF-Brasil, said that the measure “rewards those who invaded and expelled small farmers and traditional communities from public lands”.