In a letter to Lula, Yanomami women ask for an end to mining in the indigenous reserve

A Yanomami Indigenous Land It is the largest in Brazil. It is located in the states of Amazonas and Roraima, within the Amazon Rainforest, and is home to around 30 thousand indigenous people.

Indigenous people send appeal to Lula: “remove miners from our Yanomami land”

While Brazilians in green and yellow hold anti-democratic demonstrations, the true guardians of Brazilian wealth – the indigenous people – focus on the country's leadership for the next four years and send a message of help to elected president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva: “the defeated candidate [ Jair Bolsonaro] killed our people.” Look!

A letter was signed by 49 women who live in 15 communities on the reserve, classifying the current situation of the people as “true health chaos” Yanomami, cites the conflicts caused by the invaders and asks the elected president to act to combat them.

“The traces of miners cause malaria to grow. Before, when there weren't so many miners, illnesses were few and far between. In some regions of Yanomami territory, our children are dying from malaria, malnutrition, pneumonia and even worm infestation”, says the text. “Take away those who are invading Yanomami Land. Carry out operations to remove the miners and their machines.”

Curto curation:

• Revealed: Brazilian miners carve illegal 'Road to Chaos' in Amazon reserve (The Guardian *);
• Yanomami women ask Lula to put an end to mining in the indigenous reserve: 'We don't want to keep crying because people die' (G1); and
• Bolsonaro businessman is denounced on suspicion of leading mining in Yanomami area (FSP 🚥);
• New images expose children with severe malnutrition in Yanomami Land (G1).

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