Brazilian Church’s report shows that Indigenous deteriorated with Lula

SÃO PAULO – Although President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva of Brazil promised during the presidential campaign in 2022 to change the anti-Indigenous policies adopted by former President Jair Bolsonaro, not much has been done.

The figures of violence against native groups during his tenure’s first year, released on July 22 by the Bishops’ Conference’s Indigenous Missionary Council (known as CIMI), showed little has changed in 2023.

As a matter of fact, the number of killings of Indigenous people last year...