Coronavirus and deforestation rip through Brazil's people and the world's lungs Bill Weir, CNN 7-19-20 They are the two nations that can't seem to bend the Covid-19 curve to save their own lives: the US and Brazil. But while Americans complain about the lack of testing (rightly so),...
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Brazil Health Workers May Have Spread Coronavirus to Indigenous People Manuela Andreoni, Ernesto Londoño and Letícia Casado 7-19-20 The telltale symptoms began in late May, about a week after government medical workers made a routine visit to the Kanamari Indigenous community in a remote part of the Amazon:...
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“O vírus veio para mostrar que nós, os humanos, somos seres frágeis, e que dependemos da natureza”: entrevista com Daniel Kuaray Brasil Plural, Valentina Nieto 7-15-20 Daniel Timoteo Martins, Kuaray “espírito do sol” como é seu nome em Guarani, mora na comunidade Guarani de Biguaçu, na Terra indígena Mbiguaçu Yyn Morontchin Wera...
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Liderança Yanomami critica operação do Exército em Roraima Thiago Domenici, A Pública 7-6-20 O embarque para Roraima na segunda-feira passada, 29 de junho, de uma comitiva com militares, agentes de saúde, médicos da Secretaria Especial de Saúde Indígena (SESAI), do Ministério da Saúde e jornalistas no KC-390, da...
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Se confirman casos COVID-19 en la provincia de Purús Pro Purús 7-7-20 Por la mañana se confirmaron los mayores temores para Purús. Un grupo de Sharanahuas que había permanecido en Brasil durante las semanas anteriores, trajeron el virus a las comunidades nativas de la cuenca, hecho comprobado hoy...
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Indigenous leaders angry about coronavirus risk from Brazilian military visit Reuters 7-3-20 Leaders of an isolated indigenous Yanomami community in Brazil have complained that a military mission to protect them from the coronavirus brought greater risk of infection to their people through contact with outsiders including journalists. Read more:...
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