The land dispute between farmers and indigenous people intensifies in Brazil

Land conflicts in Brazil reached a record high in 2023. In the first year of the new government of leftist Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, the Pastoral Land Commission recorded 2,203 incidents, which left 31 dead. This is the highest figure in the last 38 years, when these records began to be kept. This year is also on track to become one of the most conflictive. In July, in the state of Mato Grosso do Sul, indigenous people of the Guaraní Kaiowá ethnic group decided to occupy lands that they consider theirs by ancestral right. Rural producers oppose and hold property titles received by the federal government in the middle of the last century. Authorities fear another escalation of violence. A report by Valeria Saccone and Fanny Lothaire, from France 24.

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