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Nate Silver is female Brazilian indigenous, and she's found an unlikely ally.
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Brazil's nationalist president, Jair Bolsonaro, 32 year old, is the leader of the MCU She tribe, one of the two main indigenous groups in the Amazonian state of Harima.
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For decades, her family picked and panned their land, scouring the hills for diamonds and gold.
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They kept digging even after the government marked the land as indigenous territory in 2000 and five, a measure that prohibited mining despite protests from her tribe.
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Now Silver has the ear of none other than Boston Arrow.
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The right wing leader is aboard by the global green movement for his eagerness to develop the Amazon rainforest.
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Since then, there have passed their whose ass out there?
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What do you mean?
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There are so well the apostles of Yanomami bash that, uh, a lot of Francisco.
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They give noise, trillions of dollars, sacraments.
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And yes, I am one more question on the property.
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The spacecraft is out for August.
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Silva has twice met with Bolsonaro in the capital, Brasilia.
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The first time was soon after he took power in January 2019 to discuss a bill that would authorize mining on native lands.
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It's not clear if the bill will make it through Brazil's unwieldy Congress, nor how lucrative mining would be on these lands.
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But Bolsonaro has made the bill a 2021 priority.
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And by teaming up with some indigenous people like silver, activists say Bolsonaro is exacerbating tensions within tribes through divide and conquer methods that historically helped destroy native lands worldwide.
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Many indigenous associations also see silver as a traitor, manipulated by rapacious intruders eager to grab lands and resources.
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She doesn't care, you don't is we're following in the origin of the sniper.
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One was seen, and she does have some support from within the indigenous community.
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Workers at this mine near Napoli Oh sweat from dawn till dusk with pick axes to get 4% of the mining profits.
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Diggers take 74% and those with machines to extract gold take the final 22%.
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But it's enough.
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According to the town's indigenous leader, Carpegiani Lima, Uh, I part is going to know Supreme Committee, comprised of many of these involvement, keep trusting King King.