Across Brazil, members of the country’s Indigenous communities are celebrating. On Thursday, the country’s Supreme Court rejected a legal policy known as “marco temporal” or “the timeframe” — which would have weakened Indigenous groups’ ability to claim land. The World’s Carol Hills spoke to Ana Alfinito, a lawyer and sociologist based in São Paulo.
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