; Whereas President Trump announced during their meeting he would unilaterally designate Brazil a Major Non-NATO Ally , facilitating preferential treatment for Brazil with regard to military assistance and sales or use of military equipment; Whereas President Bolsonaro and officials from his government have made statements and pursued policy reforms that threaten the human rights of vulnerable sectors of Brazilian society, including indigenous and Afro-Brazilian peoples, members of the LGBTI community, land rights activists, the labor movement, and political opponents; Whereas President Bolsonaro has pledged that he will not even permit a centimeter to be demarcated for indigenous reserves or quilombolas , the communities of descendants of enslaved Africans that are home to over 1,000,000 Afro-Brazilians; Whereas President Bolsonaro has referred to indigenous peoples living in protected ancestral lands as zoo animals ; Whereas President Bolsonaro has said the Afro-Brazilian residents of quilombolas aren’t even good for procreation anymore ; Whereas one of the first measures of the Bolsonaro administration was to transfer the authority tasked with protecting the lands of indigenous peoples to the Ministry of Agriculture, widely known to be controlled by agribusiness interests that oppose indigenous and quilombola land rights; Whereas Bolsonaro administration officials announced their intention to open up vast protected areas of the Amazon, including indigenous territories, to mining, logging, and agricultural corporations, a move that is expected to lead to rampant deforestation and accelerate global warming; Whereas the rate of deforestation of the Amazon rainforest in Brazil increased by 88 percent in June 2019, compared to the same period in 2018, according to Brazil’s National Institute of Space Research