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On the morning of May 24, 2017, police and military carried out an operation in the Santa Lúcia farm in Brazil’s northern Amazon state of Pará, killing 10 unarmed rural land users. Witnesses say the men and women were killed while trying to take shelter and hide in the rain. The police say they were […]

Four years after President Jair Bolsonaro came to office vowing not to allow "one more centimetre" of protected Indigenous reservations in Brazil, native peoples accuse him of violent, environmentally harmful policies.

Four years after President Jair Bolsonaro came to office vowing not to allow "one more centimeter" of protected Indigenous reservations in Brazil, native

Four years after President Jair Bolsonaro came to office vowing not to allow "one more centimeter" of protected Indigenous reservations in Brazil, native peoples accuse him of violent, environmentally…

Indigenous Brazilians hope to turn page on Bolsonaro

WITH headdresses made of flowers and feathers, these two young tribespeople from the Amazon might not look very fierce.But Txai Suruí and Bitaté Uru

Tangãi Uru-Eu-Wau-Wau recalls the evening of April 17, 2020, when his brother left their village deep in the Amazon rainforest to go out for a routine motorbike ride. It was the last time Tangãi saw him alive. Ari Uru-Eu-Wau-Wau’s body was found the next morning on the side of a dirt track in the Tarilândia […]

First Posted: May 14, 2021 12:22 AM EDT Photo : Buda Mendes/Getty Images Authorities in Brazil are allegedly targeting indigenous leaders after police initially launched a probe on two prominent critics of President Jair Bolsonaros government, according to human rights activists in the country. The Guardian reported that Sônia Guajajara, the head of Brazils largest indigenous organization, the Association of Indigenous Peoples (APIB), and Almir Suruí, had been put under investigation last...