Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro seems to be somewhat confused on how to tackle the Ukraine-Russia conflict in a way that aligns with his interests. In this BRaS blog essay, our postdoc researcher Luíza Cerioli discusses his new move on framing the conflict as an opportunity to reduce Brazilian dependency on fertilizing exports. This framing resulted in the approval of urgent character for processing the law project PL 190-2020, which will open indigenous territory for a mining concession. If the law is approved, this can put the indigenous communities in bigger threat as well as push for a clearly unsustainable model of extractivism development within Amazon.
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Reference: Luíza Cerioli (2022) “Bolsonaro in the Ukraine crisis: framing extractivism as a national strategy”. Brazilian Research and Studies Blog. ISSN 2701-4924. Vol. 3 Num. 1. available at: https://bras-center.com/bolsonaro-in-the-ukraine-crisis-framing-extractivism-as-a-national-strategy/, accessed on: March 14, 2022.
