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The National Human Rights Council of Brazil demanded that the state declare a state of public calamity to address the widespread violence and structural collapse of public policies aimed at these peoples. The announcement comes in parallel with the COP30 conference. Our colleague Ignacio Lemus gives us more details.

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00:00The National Human Rights Council of Brazil demanded that the state declare a state of
00:06public calamity to address the widespread violence and structural collapse of public
00:11policies aimed at these peoples.
00:14The announcement comes in parallel with the COP Terry Conference on Climate Change.
00:18Our colleague Ignacio Lemus gives us more details.
00:23While all eyes are on the climate change conference negotiations, on the other side of Brazil,
00:30in Madagroso do Sol, as they're on the border with Paraguay, the Guaraní-Cayahuá seemed
00:35to strengthen their struggle.
00:38After reclaiming part of their territory in the Guirarocá indigenous land, the indigenous
00:42people were violently replaced by landowners and police.
00:46There were four attacks.
00:51Most of them involved riot police.
00:54They said they had orders, but most of them were illegal.
00:58The ancestral territories that once were forests are now invaded by large extensions of soybean
01:05and corn monocultures.
01:07Together with sugarcane, these raw materials are used as livestock feed or for the production
01:13of biofuels.
01:14Indigenous people complain that the agrochemicals used in large-scale farming risk their villages
01:20destroy their gardens and poison their water.
01:23Our minds are steadfast.
01:29We fight with tears in our eyes, shedding our tears in our land, and we always remain
01:34steadfast.
01:35We are asking for help.
01:39At least, give us the piece of land so we can breathe the poisonous air better.
01:46The energy transition to prevent global warming requires the replacement of fossil fuels, the
01:53main sources of gas emissions into the atmosphere.
01:57At COP30, agrobusinesses is lobbying in favor of the production of so-called green fuels.
02:04For the Guarani-Gaiwa, there is little that is green about a model that expels communities
02:08and feeds off the blood of indigenous communities.
02:11We are not taking all of Brazil, just a piece to leave a space for our grandchildren,
02:24to live it, to plant, to produce, to bring back the plants, to bring back the fruits, to
02:35plant for our children.
02:37The National Human Rights Council of Brazil declared a state of systematic violations of
02:45the human rights of indigenous peoples and called for actions by the state.
02:50Discovering their land and planting crops is the desire of the Guarani-Gaiwa.
02:54Still healing from the wounds of the last violent attacks, they continue to replace soybeans
02:58with traditional diverse and poison-free crops.
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