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Photojournalist Sebastião Salgado: Brazil’s Reckless COVID Response Threatens Indigenous Survival (5-26-20)
May 28, 2020
Photojournalist Sebastião Salgado: Brazil’s Reckless COVID Response Threatens Indigenous Survival
Democracy Now!
5-26-20
As Brazil sees more than 800 deaths in 24 hours and nearly 400,000 confirmed cases, we look at COVID-19’s devastating impact on Brazil’s Indigenous peoples, who are dying at double the rate of the rest of the country. We speak with world-renowned Brazilian photojournalist Sebastião Salgado, who wrote an open letter to right-wing President Jair Bolsonaro, who called the virus a “little flu,” to warn him the pandemic is “an extreme threat to their very survival.”
Read the full interview: https://www.democracynow.org/2020/5/26/brazil