Shady deal
a proposed constitutional amendment and the shifting allegiances of the governor of the state of Roraima threaten to deprive Brazil's indigenous Macuxi people of nearly 1.6 million hectares of contiguous land in the state.
The change in statute, scheduled to be voted on soon, decrees that no more than 50 per cent of each state in the country can be protected as forest and community lands. The plan is specifically aimed at preventing the ratification of the indigenous area of Raposa