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On Monday night (22), Indigenous Guarani Kaiow\u00e1 lived through yet another terror scene in the town of Douradina, Mato Grosso do Sul. Dozens of pick-up trucks with around 100 farmers turned on their headlights towards an ancestral area of the Panambi-Lagoa Rica Indigenous Land that was retaken by the Guarani Kaiow\u00e1 people. The big farmers threatened to attack the Indigenous people who occupied, on July 13, an ancestral land overlapped by Cleto Spessatto’s farm. The Indigenous territory has already been recognized and delimited, but the demarcation process has been stalled since 2011.<\/p>\n
Since occupying this part of the territory, the Guarani Kaiow\u00e1<\/a> are under attack and one Indigenous man was shot in the leg. Tension is ongoing, with a farmers’ camp just a few meters from the land retaken.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cThis is our land. We are Guarani Kaiow\u00e1 and for hundreds of years we have been waiting for our land to be demarcated,\u201d says one of the leaders of the retaking action. \u201cIt’s full of ruralists here. They say we’re invaders. We’re not invaders. We are the nature of the land. This [land] is our source [of life],\u201d he says.<\/p>\n \u201cThey killed, massacred and spilt the blood of the Guarani Kaiow\u00e1 people, and in 2024 this problem continues. We need more security. They’re armed there,\u201d warned the Kaiow\u00e1 leader. \u201cWe don’t want a fight. We just want our land [back]. So far, nothing has been resolved. So, we’re occupying [the area] and no one is leaving because this is our area. We’re not here to play games,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n Aty Guasu, the Great Guarani Kaiow\u00e1 Assembly, is \u201casking for help\u201d and claims that Indigenous peoples are \u201cunder attack\u201d. In a statement, it denounces that \u201cfarmers are destroying tents in the Panambi Indigenous Land recently retaken\u201d. \u201cFarmers are stealing our land, objects and utensils. We want justice,\u201d says Aty Guasu.\u00a0<\/p>\n