Brazil’s foremost indigenous leader has called on the EU to impose trade sanctions to prevent ecological disaster and “social extermination” by her country’s far-right president-elect, who takes office on 1 January. Jair Bolsonaro has terrified indigenous communities by promising to take every centimeter of their land, designate rights activists as “terrorists” and carve a motorway through the Amazon, which could deforest an area larger than Germany.
