The surname they share "represents everything bad for us," Inara Waty, leader of the Satere-Mawe people in the Amazonian city of Manaus, told AFP.
"It mainly means fear," she said, her eyes filling with tears as she recalled life under the last Bolsonaro administration.
Jair Bolsonaro governed the world's most biodiverse country between 2019 and 2022, a period marked by record levels of deforestation in the Amazon and backsliding in Indigenous r…
While Flávio Bolsonaro could be elected President on 25 October, five personalities from indigenous communities in the country tell "Liberation" their fears. And hope, despite everything, that Lula will win.