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2 The ‘Massacre of Pinheirinho’ consisted of the eviction of the community of Pinheirinho on 22 January 2012. The police violently executed an order for repossession of the land issued by the state court, provoking a revolt and protests in Brazil and in a number of cities around the world.

3 The building, constructed in the nineteenth century in Rio de Janeiro, was the seat of the Indian Protection Service beginning in 1910, becoming the Museu do Índio (Indian Museum) from 1953 to 1977, based on a project conceived by Darcy Ribeiro, that was intended to be the creation of an indigenous university. With its occupation in 2006, the location was transformed into an urban indigenous village that served as a home for people from diverse ethnic groups.

4 [TN] Quilombola are inhabitants of communities founded by escaped slaves in the Brazilian interior from the seventeenth century.

5 [TN] Accused of corruption in Operação Lava Jato (Operation Car Wash), Cunha was suspended in May 2016 and arrested in October of the same year.

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7 Hardt, Michael and Negri, Antonio, Multitude: War and Democracy in the Age of Empire (New York: Penguin Press, 2004), p. 202 Google Scholar.

8 [TN] The site, in Botafogo, RJ, was called Canecão, and had been closed since 2010.

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