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Situation of Indigenous Peoples in Mato Grosso do Sul

INDIGENIST MISSIONARY COUNCIL - CIMI tume peoples and Kaingang face low temperatures and the danger of being run over.. The Brazilian State no longer wields the flag of the "final solution" through practices of "ethnic cleansing", as in the early 20th century, or by means of an integrationist project, like the one that was explicit until the promulgation of the Federal Constitution of 1988. What you see today is a broad and unconditional support of the agro-industrial capitalism, for which there is an urgent need to incorporate the ancestral territories of indigenous peoples, gradually, in monoculture, the large ranches, agribusiness and mining. The voracity of these sectors is quenched at the expense of the welfare of workers in the field of small farmers, indigenous peoples and other traditional communities of descendents of negro slaves. Social rights and citizenship are replaced by a basic policy, expressed in small financings that target specific demands that minimize the immediate impacts of inequality, but do not enable the effective redistribution of goods or greater equity in access to resources available. In the case of indigenous peoples, the default option is the federal Government's policy and such an attitude officially endorses the continuation of the death decree. In times of vaunted tolerance and respect for diversity what specifically we have observed is the dramatic reality of indigenous peoples, whose mortality rates are comparable to those of countries that live in conflict and civil war. More than that, the natives have been killed with cruelty, as in the case of Guarani Kaiowá youth murders, disguised in the form of suicide, not to mention the cases of effective suicide, which denounce the unbearable conditions of life, the daily torture and dismay the lack of option to which they are subjected. In different Brazilian States and municipalities the escalation of prejudice, discrimination and racism has been noted, objectively manifested in pronouncements of farmers who incite violence, in attacks by militia to indigenous camps in fragile slowness with which the cases of assaults are investigated and almost no penalties for the aggressors. It is these explicit manifestations of racism, combined with a growing concentration of land and total alignment with the developmental perspective into vogue that place Mato Grosso do Sul in first place in the ranking of the violence practiced against the Indians and recorded in the reports of violence of Cimi for years. The development projects of the last decades are based on the large enterprises and their maximum expression, in actuality, are that of the growth acceleration program (PAC). Stimulated and financed by the Brazilian Government, this program attacks so violently the environment and indigenous lands across the country (including the lands of isolated peoples), honoring and 14
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