Lula Revives 2024 Guarani Land Recognition Process for 85,000 Indigenous People

1 articles · Updated · The Washington Post · Sep 4

Brazil’s Lula administration restarted the formal recognition of Guarani ancestral territory in 2024, reopening a land-rights process that had been stalled for years.
A 2015 Justice Ministry decision had recognized the community’s claim to a larger area, but Michel Temer’s government reversed it in 2017, a move some experts called unconstitutional.
Eloy Terena, Brazil’s Indigenous peoples minister, said that reversal pushed the process back by at least 10 years.
The case affects roughly 85,000 Guarani in Brazil, part of an Indigenous people whose territory long predated modern borders across Brazil, Paraguay, Argentina, Bolivia and Uruguay.
Political resistance still threatens the effort, underscoring how difficult it remains for Lula’s government to convert revived recognition into a final land settlement.