Tag: Yanomami
In Brazil, gold miners are back in the Yanomami indigenous reserve
An illegal mine in the Yanomami indigenous reserve, Brazil, January 10, 2024. UESLEI MARCELINO / REUTERS A year after the Brazilian government’s attempted expulsion of thousands of illegal gold miners…
Brazil: the noose is tightening around gold miners in Yanomami territory
Agents from the Brazilian environmental protection body Ibama arrest an illegal gold digger on February 24, 2023 (AFP/ALAN CHAVES) In fatigues, carrying heavy weapons, agents fly over the Amazon rainforest…
“To see children of the Yanomami people in a situation of famine is the demonstration that this is a premeditated genocide”
“Each day to hell we descend one step, without horror, through stinking darkness” (Charles Baudelaire, The evil flowers). This quote from Baudelaire is very significant of the horror experienced by…
Brazil: Gold diggers flee Yanomami land before police arrive
Aerial view of the Amazon rainforest in Yanomami indigenous territory in the state of Roraima, Brazil, on February 2, 2023 (AFP/MICHAEL DANTAS) The Brazilian authorities announced on Monday the deployment…
faced with the scourge of illegal gold panning, the Yanomami receive support from the Brazilian state
Yanomami indigenous people arrive by plane in Boa Vista, Roraima state, Brazil, for treatment, January 28, 2023. MICHAEL DANTAS/AFP The Brazilian president did not skimp on the means. Since Wednesday…
1000 Yanomami seriously ill: suspected genocide against Bolsonaro’s ex-government
1000 Yanomami seriously ill Genocide suspicion against Bolsonaro’s ex-government 01/26/2023 02:22 am Scores of Yanomami children are said to have died of malnutrition in Brazil in recent years. In the…