The Tupinambá de Olivença tribe won when forcing the Vila Gale group to cancel the project of building a resort in their land.

Vila Gale, the Spanish real estate group, announced on November 18 that it canceled plans to build a 500-room luxury hotel chain on the coast of Bahia, Brazil, after a 15-year struggle to keep land. Tupinambá de Olivença tribe.

The Tupinambá de Olivença tribe, with a population of 4,631 people since 2003, has lobbied the Brazilian government to consider the land they still hunt for as a reserve for Aboriginal people. The Brazilian Civil Rights Protection Agency Funai approved their request in 2009 and the court unanimously supported the Tupinambá tribe in 2016.

However, the proposal still needs the Ministry of Justice and the President of Brazil to approve. The Tupinambá de Olivença tribe since 2016 has repeatedly petitioned but received no reply.

The Brazilian National Human Rights Council last week urged President Bolsonaro's government to accelerate the delimitation of territory for Tupinambá, a land in the Atlantic coastal forest in southern Bahia, known as a beach. Attract millions of tourists every year.

The Brazilian president has not yet made a decision on the specific case of Tupinambá but has repeatedly stated he has no intention of giving more land to Aboriginal groups. Bolsonaro earlier this year insisted "there is too much land for ethnic minorities".

The Vila Gale Group said a local businessman sold them the land in 2018, and the project to build the resort was also approved by representatives of the regional government and the government. The company then published the project on its official website and said it would open the resort in 2021.

However, Ramón Tupinambá, the head of the Tupinambá clan, announced at a meeting in Brasilia late last month that there would be a war if the Vila Gale corporation entered their land.

The pressure to ask Vila Gale to cancel the construction project began to increase when the Intercept newspaper published a letter on October 27 showing Brazilian tourism authorities urged the government to cancel the process of demarcating the land as tribal territory, because a chain of hotels is about to spring up that could bring in $ 200 million in investment and create 2,000 jobs.

After the letter leak, Vila Gale was under pressure from public opinion asking them to cancel the construction project. The group then confirmed it would wait for a final decision from the Ministry of Justice and Brazilian President.

However, in a statement on November 18, Vila Gale said that it did not want its hotel to be built "in an atmosphere of war", so they decided to cancel the construction plan despite allegations to the episode. The delegation is "unfounded and unfair".

Following a decree of the Brazilian President in 1996 and the Brazilian Constitution of 1988, which ensured the rights of aboriginal people to their ancestral land, any building that violated the boundary drawn by Funai was confiscation without compensation.