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Texto de Manuela Carneiro da Cunha, traduzido do francês por Duff Morton, e dirigido ao público internacional.
(Manuela Carneiro da Cunha is Professor Emerita, the University of Chicago, and Professor (retired), Universidade de São Paulo (Brazil). She is a member of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences.)
Indigenous peoples boxed in by Brazil’s political crisis
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Manuela CARNEIRO DA CUNHA,University of Chicago and University of São Paulo.
After two decades of military dictatorship, a new Constitution proclaimed in 1988 gave pride of place to human rights and the protection of the environment. Nicknamed the Citizen Constitution, it expressed hope for a regime of justice and democracy. Thirty years on, it has suffered from all sorts of distortions: its terms have been violated, as occurs so often with such documents, and, even more seriously, constitutional amendments and decrees have attempted to disfigure it.
Land conflicts are endemic






