Brazil Congress overturns Lula veto on limit to Indigenous land claims

BRASILIA: Brazil‘s Congress on Thursday overturned a presidential veto that had struck down the core of a bill to limit Indigenous land claims, setting up a likely clash at the Supreme Court.
Indigenous groups had supported President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva‘s veto, while the bill had the backing of the powerful farm lobby.
In a joint session of both chambers, lawmakers voted overwhelmingly to annul Lula’s veto of a policy limiting claims to ancestral lands where Indigenous people lived in…