Nobel Peace Prize Could Be Stinging Rebuff To Brazilian President Bolsonaro If Indigenous Leader Wins

In an op-ed in The Guardian in September, Metuktire accused Bolsonaro of encouraging deforestation.

“President Bolsonaro of Brazil is encouraging the farm owners near our lands to clear the forest-and he is not doing anything to prevent them from invading our country,” he wrote.

The 89-year old Nobel Prize nominee responded by saying, “Bolsonaro said I was not a leader, but it is he who is no leader and should go.”

Metuktire is nominated alongside activist Greta Thunberg, New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed, The UN High Commisioner for Refugees, and Reporters Without Borders.