‘Why is there no money to finance indigenous peoples in their production?, asks the president, without detailing the project’
SPECIAL FOR ESTADÃO – President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva declared on Monday 13 that his government is studying a financing program for indigenous agricultural production.
“If we have the money to finance entrepreneurs, family farming, large landowners, why is there no money to finance indigenous peoples in their production?” Raposa Serra do Sol, in Roraima.
The event brought together members of different ethnic groups from across the country and discussed agendas for the year 2023.
Although there is no blueprint for this project yet, it may be an update of the “Carteira Indígena”, a program of incentives and grants for indigenous production implemented during the first Lula administration (2003-2006). The initiative lasted until 2009.
The treatment of indigenous people has been the subject of numerous controversies in the government of Jair Bolsonaro. In January 2019, Bolsonaro tried to issue a decree allowing the leasing of indigenous lands for agribusiness, but the regulation was never changed.
Two weeks before the end of his mandate, the former president issued a decree authorizing “forest management,” which would allow indigenous people to sign partnerships with rural producers to raise livestock and plant crops in demarcated areas. The decree was part of the package of measures revoked by Lula on January 1.
Bolsonaro relied on indigenous groups sympathetic to his government. In these meetings, in August 2021, the former president declared “they are exactly the same as each of us. Indians want to work, they want the internet, they want progress, they want to pay taxes”. During the campaign, he was also critical of land demarcation. “The doubling of the demarcated indigenous area in Brazil is the end of our economy, it is the end of our food security.”
The civil code classifies indigenous people as “relatively capable”, i.e. people capable of performing only a few acts of civilian life. In 2015, the Statute of Persons with Disabilities amended the law, establishing that there must be a specific provision to regulate the civil capacity of indigenous peoples.
At this Monday’s event, Lula was accompanied by his wife, Janja, the president of Funai, Joenia Wapichana and some members of the top government: Márcio Macedo (general secretary), Paulo Pimenta (Secom), José Múcio (defense), Sônia Guajajara (Indigenous peoples) and Nísia Trindade (Health).
Source: Terra
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