In Brazil, President-elect Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva fulfilled one of a campaign promises by naming the country’s first-ever indigenous affairs minister. To head the new Ministry of Indigenous Peoples, Lula selected Indigenous leader Sonia Guajajara, one of the most prominent advocates on behalf of Brazil’s original inhabitants Indigenous communities in Amazonia have suffered badly under the Bolsonaro administration, whose support for mining and agri-business interests has spurred deforestation and undermined the territorial integrity of indigenous reserves. “We have a Cabinet. Now we must begin to work.... "The Brazilian people cannot wait any longer” after “the misrule to which they have been subjected in these years,” Lula said, referring to the tenure of far-right President Jair Bolsonaro. https://www.laprensalatina.com/brazils-lula-announces-ministry-of-indigenous-affairs/