Brazil purchases land for Indigenous communities in reparations effort
The Brazilian government has acquired 107 hectares of land for Indigenous communities. This is part of historic reparations addressing human rights abuses related to a hydroelectric dam built in the 1970s.
In Brazil, the government has purchased land for Indigenous communities as part of historic reparations for human rights abuses linked to the construction of a hydroelectric dam in the 1970s. The newly acquired property covers 107 hectaresโa small portion of the 3,000 hectares the government has agreed to buy for those whose land was flooded by the Itaipu dam. France24 correspondent Jan Onoszko tells us more from Rio de Janeiro.