Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva on Friday decreed six new Indigenous reserves, the first after a dearth of such expansion under his far-right predecessor Jair Bolsonaro

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Lula signed the official decrees on the final day of a gathering of Indigenous people from around the country in the capital Brasilia. 'Fighting to recover' The last declaration of a new Indigenous reserve in Brazil dates to five years ago, when then-president Michel Temer granted the Guato people rights to 20,000 hectares of ancestral land in the western Mato Grosso state. "He created a ministry of Indigenous Peoples, the first in Brazil's history

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