RIO DE JANEIRO — Carnival dancers took the biggest stage in Rio de Janeiro with their faces painted red in a traditional Indigenous manner while percussionists had “Miners out” written across the ...
BOA VISTA, Brazil (AP) — Severe malnutrition and disease, particularly malaria, are decimating the Yanomami population in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest, and on Jan. 20 the federal government declared a ...
Indigenous Yanomami communities in Venezuela are suffering from increasing invasions by Brazilian gold miners, locally known as garimpeiros. One of the most impacted areas is the Alto ...