Indigenous people in Latin America are being decimated by the coronavirus pandemic due to weak immune systems and centuries of state neglect
COPING WITH THE CORONAVIRUS. Colombian Tikuna indigenous people pose wearing face masks, amid concerns of the COVID-19 coronavirus, in Leticia, department of Amazonas, Colombia, on June 8, 2020. File photo by Tatiana De Nevo/AFP
The APIB accuses the government of far-right Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro of having"done nothing" to prevent the relentless spread of coronavirus in areas where 750,000 indigenous people live. So far, more than 5,300 have been infected., with more than a million infections and over 50,000 deaths from COVID-19.
On the border between Brazil and Venezuela, the Yanomamis territory is occupied by around 20,000 illegal miners, according to Survival International. A man with his face covered by a mask and holding a stick watches over the entrance to the village of El Progreso, which can only be reached by the Tucushira, one of more than 1,000 tributaries of the Amazon.
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