Jair Bolsonaro

Jair Bolsonaro, Brazil's far-right president, has said he may not accept the results of this October's presidential contest if he loses.

"Up to now, the Biden administration has only legitimized the Brazilian government's anti-Indigenous and anti-environmental agenda," said Greenpeace USA.

"The relentless violence against environmental defenders and investigative journalists," one expert wrote of Brazil, "offers a window into the scale of environmental crime and its monumental toll on natural and human ecosystems."

Should he face far-right incumbent Jair Bolsonaro in a head-to-head runoff as expected, leftist icon Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva is expected to win by a margin of 54% to 32%.

"Journalists reporting on Indigenous issues are doing critical work, and must be able to do so without fearing for their safety," asserted one advocate.

"Brazil will have the opportunity to decide which country it will be for the next few years, and for generations to come," said Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. "The Brazil of democracy or authoritarianism?"

"The Bolsonaro administration is abetting deforestation and environmental crime," said one campaigner, "and what we harvest are these terrible, scary, revolting numbers."

One prosecutor called the ruling "another victory for the Indigenous and riverine people of Volta Grande do Xingu," who "know that a mining project can have devastating impacts on the region."

"Everything this government has decreed against Indigenous peoples must be repealed immediately," the leftist presidential candidate said in a swipe at far-right President Jair Bolsonaro.

"Right-wing nationalism and illiberalism are very alive in the heart of Europe."