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Tom Phillips in the Araribóia Indigenous territory

‘Bolsonaro’s to blame’: Indigenous rights champion on crisis in Brazil

Sydney Possuelo has devoted his career to protecting Brazil’s Indigenous people.
Sydney Possuelo has devoted his career to protecting Brazil’s Indigenous people. Photograph: João Laet/The Guardian

Jair Bolsonaro’s calculated sabotage of Indigenous and environmental protections has exposed Brazil’s Native peoples to the most dramatic crisis in their history, the country’s most famous living explorer has said.

Speaking to the Guardian, Sydney Possuelo, the outspoken former president of Brazil’s Indigenous protection agency, Funai, voiced outrage and sorrow at the demolition of safeguards he helped create during his legendary six-decade career.

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