“What is being done to your partner, your friend Raul, on your property in Rio Brilhante is barbaric,” he said.
Jose Orcirio Miranda (PT), state deputy and former governor of Mato Grosso do Sul, better known as Zeca do PT, was criticized on social media after convicting the invasion of a friend’s farm by natives in the municipality of Rio Brilhante. The speech ended up being disapproved even by the petistas.
“What is done to his partner, his friend Raul, on his property in Rio Brilhante is barbaric. On the one hand, since there is no definite anthropological study to say that it is an indigenous land and, on the other hand, two buses with about 80 indigenous people have ‘poured’ into it, they have now closed the gate, occupied the headquarters of the Farm of 400 hectares, forbidding Raul and his family from taking about seven thousand bags of collected soybeans from there“, he said during a session of the Legislative Assembly.
“It’s a shame […] Do not count on me those who, without reason, occupy and invade productive properties, creating legal uncertainty“, He added.
On social media, the executive secretary of the Ministry of Indigenous Peoples, Elio Terenacriticized:
“Regrettable speech by PT Deputy Zeca in the Legislative Assembly of Mato Grosso do Sul, when he questioned the legitimate claim of the Guarani and Kaiowá to their traditional territory. Laranjeira Nhanderu is an indigenous land, has an anthropological study and is an essential space for the physical and cultural survival of the GK“.
In a note sent to CNN Brasil, the deputy said:
“To those who attack me for my position in defense of legality, know that this is also the position of the Lula government.
My history of militancy for social movements – as a member of the PT, state deputy, governor, councilor and federal deputy – has always been based on fighting to pass laws that benefit landless workers, indigenous peoples, quilombolas and the poorest families. Therefore, it would make no sense to preach or advocate legal violations.
Both the Lula government and I are 100% committed to land reform and the delimitation of indigenous lands. However, it will not be with occupations or invasions that we will contribute to this process.
There is a huge pent-up demand due to the last few years when these two agendas have been forgotten and abandoned by the federal government. However, now that Lula has resumed the presidency, we need to be patient, because Bolsonaro’s legacy was a shattered budget, which must be reassembled, with fiscal responsibility, so that it is possible to allocate resources for land acquisition in order to meet these commitments. .“
To those who attack me for my position in defense of legality know that this is also the position of the government @LulaOficial: https://t.co/xFXqdrleUC pic.twitter.com/HaRQwSEgUB
— Zeca do PT (@zecadopt) March 12, 2023
Source: Terra
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