Gold miners bring fresh wave of suffering to Brazil’s Yanomami
By Ueslei Marcelino YANOMAMI INDIGENOUS LAND, Brazil (Reuters) – Brazil is losing the upper hand in its battle to save the Yanomami Indigenous people, who are dying from flu, malaria…
By Ueslei Marcelino YANOMAMI INDIGENOUS LAND, Brazil (Reuters) – Brazil is losing the upper hand in its battle to save the Yanomami Indigenous people, who are dying from flu, malaria…
By Ricardo Brito and Anthony Boadle BRASILIA (Reuters) – Police action will not suffice to defend Yanomami territory in the Amazon from illegal gold miners, and Brazil’s government must throw…
By Amanda Perobelli BOA VISTA, Brazil (Reuters) – Brazil’s environmental and indigenous agencies have launched an enforcement operation in the Amazon rainforest to expel thousands of illegal gold miners blamed…
By Anthony Boadle BRASILIA (Reuters) – Brazil’s military should evict illegal gold miners who have caused malnutrition and starvation in a region of the Yanomami reservation near the Venezuelan border,…
BRASILIA (Reuters) – Brazil’s ministry of health has declared a medical emergency in the Yanomami territory, the country’s largest indigenous reservation bordering Venezuela, following reports of children dying of malnutrition…