Indigenous Guarani live in deepening poverty in Brazil

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When far-right President Jair Bolsonaro became Brazil's president in 2019, he vowed not to allow "one more centimetre" of protected Indigenous reservations. Many native communities in the country have been forced from their ancestral lands to make way for industrial-scale agriculture. In the state of Parana, the Ava Guarani Indigenous people have been reduced to living on a leftover scrap of unwanted territory. "It is very sad, hunger is no joke… It's not because we are lazy or because we don't want to work. We really don't have space to work, to plant, to produce food," says Ava-Guarani leader, Chief Inacio Martins.

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