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Friday, July 17, 2020

Akazu Tabajara Tapeba dances in front of an outdoors television screen during the group A, 2018 soccer World Cup opening match between Russia and Saudi Arabia, at Praca Maua, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Thursday, June 14, 2018

Bolsonaro Gov't Pushing Brazil's Native Peoples to the Edge of Extinction, Indigenous Leader Warns

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The Bolsonaro government has no interest in shielding Brazilian Indians from COVID-19, on the contrary, it has long sought to open indigenous lands for mining and agribusiness, considering native peoples to be only a stumbling block, notes indigenous leader Weibe Tapeba and Brazilian scholar Gustavo Guerreiro.
Brazil has become a new hotspot for COVID-19 second only to the US in the number of confirmed cases and fatalities. Even the Brazilian president, Jair Bolsonaro, who long shrugged off the danger of the coronavirus pandemic, tested positive for the virus.
Meanwhile, human rights activists are ringing the alarm over soaring fatalities among the country's indigenous population. As of 15 July, Brazil's Department of Indigenous Health Care (DIHC-DASI) registered 10,889 COVID infections and 218 deaths among Brazilian Indians, while the overall number of cases in the country mounted over 1.96 million.
Mortality rates among Brazilian Indians are almost twice the national rate (12.6% versus 6.4%), as Articulation of the Indigenous Peoples of Brazil (APIB), an advocacy group, found in June.

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