Aumentan los casos de COVID-19 en el pueblo indígena Yuqui y en Charagua Iyambae CEJIS 7-25-20 En los territorios indígenas de Charagua Iyambae (Santa Cruz) y Yuqui (Cochabamba) los casos de coronavirus se incrementaron hasta este 23 de julio, según los reportes emitidos por sus representantes. En el...
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COVID-19: an existential threat for Indigenous peoples of the Amazon Theodor Borrmann, PreventionWeb 7-21-20 “The guardians of the forests are in danger!”, Tuntiak Katan observes at the beginning of the Covid-19 outbreak. His warning still echoes and reverberates in my head. Over the last three months, the coronavirus...
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Yanomami mothers fight for the right to bury their children during the COVID-19 pandemic in Brazil Emily Costa and Kátia Brasil 7-24-20 Amazônia Real's report located indigenous children buried without their families' knowledge. On July 1, a mother of Yanomami ethnicity, and member of the Sanöma subgroup, received her...
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Brazil indigenous chief Aritana hospitalized with COVID-19 after arduous journey Ueslei Marcelino 7-22-20 Aritana Yawalapiti, one of Brazil’s most influential indigenous leaders, arrived at a hospital in the central city of Goiânia early on Wednesday to be treated at an intensive care unit for COVID-19, after an arduous...
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The Amazon, Giver of Life, Unleashes the Pandemic Julie Turkewitz and Manuela Andreoni 7-25-20 As the pandemic assails Brazil, the virus is taking an exceptionally high toll on the Amazon region. The virus swept through the region like past plagues that have traveled the river with colonizers and...
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Recordando a Benjamín Rodríguez, visionario líder indígena del Putumayo Instituto del Bien Común – IBC, Field Museum de Chicago, Sociedad Zoológica de Fráncfort – FZS 7-21-20 En lo que se viene dando ya con espeluznante regularidad, otro emblemático líder indígena amazónico nos abandona, víctima de una pandemia que...
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