Brazilian CP on escalating violence against indigenous peoples

In Brazil, acts of violence against indigenous peoples have considerably escalated during the presidential election process. According to the statement of the Indigenous Fraction of the Brazilian Communist Party (PCB) published in the 111th edition of O Poder Popular, at least three indigenous people have been reported murdered in recent days.

Stating that indigenous people are forbidden from leaving their territories under a climate of terror, the PCB links the violence to the growth of the far right and neofascist forces in numerous states and municipalities in the 2026 elections. Moreover, certain agribusiness and mining activities such as illegal wildcat mining, wood extraction, predatory hunting and fishing act on the margins of the law and trigger various actions against the first peoples by poisoning river waters and streams or patrolling indigenous lands with armed people.

The PCB expresses its full solidarity with the indigenous peoples and demands from the public power all necessary, concrete, and effective measures of protection.