Ramaswami: Bolsonaro is a racist, who repeatedly mouths abuse at the indigenous people of Brazil and takes pride in the supremacy of the ‘white race’. He has openly stated that the ‘reserves’ inhabited by the indigenous people are an obstacle to agri-business, multi-national mining interests and hence the indigenous people should be evicted from those lands. After he assumed the presidency, occupation of lands held by the indigenous people has more than doubled. Bolsonaro had facilitated the plunder of Amazon by diluting the forest laws and also divesting the indigenous affairs office under the ministry of justice of its power to regulate indigenous territories. He expressed his displeasure at the failure of the Brazilian army to exterminate the indigenous people, just as the native Americans were completely eliminated from North America.