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Brazil's President Lula da Silva vetoes bill backed by the country's powerful farm lobby that would have limited claims to ancestral lands where Indigenous people have lived by 1988
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BRASILIA, Oct 20 (Reuters) - Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has vetoed the core parts of a bill backed by the country’s powerful farm lobby that would have limited claims to ancestral lands where Indigenous people have lived by 1988.
“The president vetoed everything that was unconstitutional and not consistent with our Indigenous peoples policy,” his Institutional Relations Minister Alexandre Padilha announced.
“The important thing is that Indigenous rights are guaranteed by the veto,” she said at a news conference with Padilha after a meeting with Lula to decide the matter.
The core of the bill sought to establish in law a cut-off for new reservations on lands Indigenous people did not live on by Oct. 5, 1988 when Brazil’s Constitution was enacted.
The caucus representing agribusiness in Brazil’s Congress said they would seek to vote to overturn Lula’s veto, adding that lawmakers’ decisions must be respected by the other branches of power.
Minister Guajajara responded in an interview with Reuters that it would undermine the ancestral land rights of Indigenous people and threaten their way of life, and she urged Lula to veto it completely.
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