COVID-19 Lowland South America

Kuikuru

Amazonian Ethnocide Memories in Times of Covid-19 by Carlos Fausto (4-23-20)

“The Measles from the Time of My Grandfather”: Amazonian Ethnocide Memories in Times of Covid-19 By Carlos Fausto 23 April 2020 "Two weeks ago, Kanari Kuikuro called me from Canarana, a small town in the Brazilian Amazon, where he now lives with his wife and many children. He...

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Forest Peoples Programme Coronavirus

Coronavirus y las comunidades dependientes de los bosques (4-9-20)

El coronavirus y las comunidades dependientes de los bosques Forest Peoples Programme, abril 9, 2020 El COVID-19 es una amenaza mundial, cuyos efectos completos aun desconocemos. Lo que si sabemos es que muchos pueblos indígenas y comunidades locales enfrentan en este momento, y seguirán enfrentando, desafíos más...

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Arisi vale do javari covid-19

Refusing missionaries and ‘Us’, the global plague, by Barbara Arisi (3-31-20)

Indigenous in the Brazilian Amazon: Refusing missionaries and 'Us', the global plague By Barbara Maisonnave Arisi Medical Anthropology at UCLA, 31 March 2020 Field diary of anthropologist Barbara Arisi where she reports that UNIVAJA has filed a new complaint against missionaries from  MNTB/Ethnos360 who are organizing from Atalaia...

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Luisa Elvira Belaunde

“No atender la demanda de los pueblos amazónicos ahora significa mandarlos a la muerte” (L. Belaunde, 4-16-20)

“No atender la demanda de los pueblos amazónicos ahora significa mandarlos a la muerte” Luisa Elvira Belaunde (entrevista por J. Fowks) El País, 16 de abril de 2020 En Perú, el primer diagnóstico de la covid-19 se registró el 6 de marzo y hasta después de cinco semanas...

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ESPAÑOL – Infografía COVID-19

[fullwidth_text alt_background="none" width="1/1" el_position="first last"] ESPAÑOL - Infografía COVID-19 [/fullwidth_text] [spb_single_image image="9314" image_size="full" frame="noframe" lightbox="no" link_target="_self" fullwidth="no" width="1/2" el_position="first"] OPIAC [/spb_single_image] [spb_single_image image="9315" image_size="full" frame="noframe" lightbox="yes" image_link="https://salsa-tipiti.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/OPIAC-Cartilla-CONSEJOS-CUIDADO-COVID-19.pdf" link_target="_blank" fullwidth="no" width="1/2" el_position="last"] OPIAC Cartilla "Mensaje y consejos para el cuidado de la salud de los pueblos indígenas" [/spb_single_image] [spb_single_image image="9321" image_size="full" frame="noframe"...

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Science covid-19

Indigenous communities in Brazil fear pandemic’s impact (4-24-20)

Indigenous communities in Brazil fear pandemic’s impact By Ignacio Amigo Science, 24 April 2020 To the older generation of the Paiter Surui, the COVID-19 pandemic looks disturbingly familiar. The Indigenous people, who inhabit the border of the Brazilian states of Rondônia and Mato Grosso, suffered hundreds of...

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