New Minister of the Peoples, Eloy Terena, 38, promises to continue the work of the PSOL in São Paulo. A lawyer, he was executive secretary of the department, which was created by the current government.
Terena reaches the top level of government with the fact that he was the first indigenous lawyer to win a constitutional case in the Federal Supreme Court (STF) on his CV.
In August 2020, he was responsible for the Claim of Non-Compliance with Constitutional Precepts (ADPF) in which the STF forced the Jair Bolsonaro (PL) government to adopt measures to protect indigenous peoples against Covid-19.
He also worked in another ADPF that guaranteed protection measures for isolated peoples, in addition to being the author of a complaint to the UN Human Rights Council about the “indigenous extermination policy” promoted by the Brazilian government during Bolsonaro’s mandate.
Terena was one of the first indigenous people to benefit from the University for All Program, enrolling in the Law course at the Dom Bosco Catholic University (UCDB), in Mato Grosso do Sul.
He also became a doctor in Social Anthropology at the National Museum of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ). He then completed a postdoctoral degree at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), in Paris, France.
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