At the outset, indigenous groups mostly embraced these leftist governments because of their rhetoric behind land rights and social justice and inclusion. But disenchantment quickly set in among some indigenous sectors as governments quickly discovered that, just like more right-leaning governments, they needed the revenue that comes from development projects in forestry, mining, oil extraction and dam building.

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