Brazil legally designated Amazon natives as foreigners to gag dam opposition

Evidence

In an effort to blunt their initiative, the Brazilian government charged the two Kayapo leaders (along with Posey) with contravening a law that banned foreigners from criticizing the government. Under an astonishing statute, native peoples, who had inhabited the Amazon for millennia, could be designated as foreigners and therefore subject to the gagging measure. Thus the threat of physical expulsion from their lands by flooding was compounded by the imaginative and legal expulsion of the Kayapo from the idea of the nation. — Rob Nixon, Slow Violence and the Environmentalism…, 489

Categorization

• XREF: The double expulsion (physical + legal/imaginative) connects to this book’s earlier claims about displacement occurring without movement and about legal delay eroding claims.