Brazil’s Congress is currently debating a controversial bill to open up indigenous territories for mining, dams, army bases and other industrial projects. If it becomes law, the bill would be an ‘unmitigated disaster’ for Brazil’s Indians...[who] rely on their lands to sustain themselves physically and culturally....The... Draft Bill 227... is part of a wave of moves to weaken indigenous rights, being pushed by Brazil’s powerful rural lobby group...supported by several members of Congress, some of whom have reportedly received funds from mining and agri-business companies including Bunge, which is buying sugarcane grown on the Guarani tribe’s land. Indigenous peoples across the country are expressing their anger at this move…Earlier this month...President Rousseff met with indigenous leaders for the first time...[and] promised to...stand alongside them in their fight against legislation which violates their rights...No indigenous people have been consulted about this proposed law.