Brazil’s president made anti-indigenous joke on Facebook broadcast, the latest in a succession of discriminatory commentsIndigenous activists have vowed to sue Brazil’s far-right president, Jair Bolsonaro, for racism after his latest bigoted outburst. Sonia Guajajara, one of Brazil’s most prominent indigenous leaders, announced that her group, the Brazilian Indigenous People’s Association, would sue for the crime of racism. In the 1990s, Bolsonaro, then a little-known congressman, publicly lamented how troops had failed to obliterate Brazil’s indigenous communities. But activists say Bolsonaro – who is pushing highly controversial plans to allow commercial mining on protected indigenous lands – represents an urgent threat. “Not since the dictatorship have Brazil’s indigenous peoples felt as threatened as they do now,” senator Randolfe Rodrigues told the Guardian last year.

Source: The Guardian January 24, 2020 13:41 UTC