Army officers currently hold no less than 325 posts within the federal administration. His government has the strong support of the army, represented by its vice-president, Retired General Hamilton. He has an aggressive authoritarian attitude and is supported by evangelical and landowning groups. In 2019, following a conservative campaign, Jair Bolsonaro of the Social Liberal Party (PSL) was elected.
The legalisation of Indigenous Lands is a long bureaucratic process with final approval given by the President of the Republic 2 the following have been ratified by each of the presidents over the last 25 years, indirectly reflecting the public policies of each government in relation to the Indigenous population: Brazil acceded to ILO Convention 169 in 2002. 1 In Brazil, 37.4% of Indigenous people over the age of five speak one of the 274 Indigenous languages.
The land with the largest Indigenous population is the Yanomami territory, in Amazonas and Roraima states, with 25,700 inhabitants. Six of these lands are home to more than 10,000 Indigenous people each another 107 are inhabited by between 1,000 and 10,000 291 by between 100 and 1,000 and 83 have no more than 100 people living on each of them. These lands represent 12.5% (106.7 million hectares) of Brazil’s territory and are inhabited by 517,400 Indigenous people (57.7% of the total). Five hundred and five (505) Indigenous Lands (TIs) have been identified. Brazil’s Indigenous population numbers 896,900 people, 36.2% of whom live in urban areas and 63.8% in rural.