Um grande Cacique a menos: Morre Aritana Xapuri 8-5-20 O cacique Yawalapiti Aritana, liderança do Parque Indígena do Xingu, MT, morreu, hoje, 05 de agosto em Goiânia-Goiás, em consequência do Covid-19, aos 74 anos. O cacique yawalapiti Aritana, uma das principais lideranças do Parque Indígena do Xingu, enfrentava...
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Médecins Sans Frontières: Chasing COVID-19 in the Brazilian Amazon Médecins Sans Frontières 8-3-20 In Manaus, the waters of the Negro and Solimões rivers meet, forming the colossal Amazon river. As the epidemic peaked and then stabilised in the state’s capital, the disease had already been silently spreading upriver...
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“Hay indicios significativos para que autoridades brasileñas, incluido Bolsonaro, sean investigadas por genocidio” Eliane Brum, El País 7-25-20 La jurista Deisy Ventura, especialista en la relación entre pandemias y derecho internacional, dice que existen todos los elementos necesarios para clasificar como crimen de lesa humanidad la actuación del...
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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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