Issued on: 21/04/2026 - 18:16

In Brazil, the government has purchased land for Indigenous communities as part of historic reparations for human rights abuses linked to the construction of a hydroelectric dam in the 1970s. The newly acquired property covers 107 hectares—a small portion of the 3,000 hectares the government has agreed to buy for those whose land was flooded by the Itaipu dam. France24 correspondent Jan Onoszko tells us more from Rio de Janeiro.

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