Subtitles section Play video Print subtitles Iris. Nate Silver is female Brazilian indigenous, and she's found an unlikely ally. 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. For decades, her family picked and panned their land, scouring the hills for diamonds and gold. 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. Now Silver has the ear of none other than Boston Arrow. The right wing leader is aboard by the global green movement for his eagerness to develop the Amazon rainforest. Since then, there have passed their whose ass out there? What do you mean? There are so well the apostles of Yanomami bash that, uh, a lot of Francisco. They give noise, trillions of dollars, sacraments. And yes, I am one more question on the property. The spacecraft is out for August. Silva has twice met with Bolsonaro in the capital, Brasilia. The first time was soon after he took power in January 2019 to discuss a bill that would authorize mining on native lands. It's not clear if the bill will make it through Brazil's unwieldy Congress, nor how lucrative mining would be on these lands. But Bolsonaro has made the bill a 2021 priority. 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. Many indigenous associations also see silver as a traitor, manipulated by rapacious intruders eager to grab lands and resources. She doesn't care, you don't is we're following in the origin of the sniper. One was seen, and she does have some support from within the indigenous community. Workers at this mine near Napoli Oh sweat from dawn till dusk with pick axes to get 4% of the mining profits. Diggers take 74% and those with machines to extract gold take the final 22%. But it's enough. 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.
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