Weekly Report - 6 June 2013 (WR-13-22)

A week after the killing of a Terana Indian during a clash with security forces in Mato Grosso do Sul, the justice minister, José Eduardo Cardozo, announced the deployment of 110 soldiers to the region. Protests erupted across the country following the clash. In Rio Grande do Sul, about 2,000 Kaingang and Guarani Indians blocked roads to protest the government’s decision to delay the handover of ancestral lands to indigenous communities. In Curitiba, the capital of Paraná, 30 Kaingang Indians invaded the offices of the ruling Partido dos Trabalhadores (PT) on 3 June and only agreed to leave 10 hours later when they were promised a meeting with President Dilma Rousseff’s chief of staff, Gleisi Hoffmann.