Just days after a groundbreaking supreme court victory, Sônia Guajajara, Brazil’s first minister for Indigenous peoples, has a new target in her sights.
She is preparing to oppose efforts in the Brazilian parliament, backed by the agricultural business lobby, to reinstate the controversial “time limit” (“marco temporal”). This legal doctrine established restrictions for Indigenous land claims, and so favoured farmers, miners and land grabbers. The decision to abolish the time limit bolstered the Indigenous campaign for land rights in Brazil and Latin America.
