The EU anti-farming, anti-business ideas have gone colonial in Brazil. Dated time is involved with property ownership. The Supreme Court of Brazil says indigenous Brazilians have unlimited time to decide if the land they inhabit is owned by them, or not.

Nine of the court’s 11 justices voted to strike down what is called the “marco temporal” or “time frame” argument, a legal policy supported by businesses and farmers seeking to use Indigenous land.

The “marco temporal” would have forced Indigenous groups to prove they were on the land in question in 1988, when Brazil’s current constitution was ratified, in order to assert a right to the territory.

The experts at the United Nations argued this marking of time could “legalise theft of Indigenous lands”.

The case stemmed from one such displacement in the state of Santa Catarina. Pushed out by tobacco farmers, members of the Xokleng people appealed to the state government for help reclaiming their land. The state government had refused them, on the basis that they were not there in 1988.

So? Says Brazil’s Supreme Court, sequestered in a magnificent building residing on land appropriated from Brazil’s indigenous peoples.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/9/2 ... claim-case