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For Afro-Brazilian quilombolas, pandemic is synonymous with abandonment, racism, and necropolitics – People s World

Quilombo do Abacatal, Ananindeua-Pará. MOJU, PARÁ, Brazil “We are not even getting access to the basic necessities,” says Raimundo Magno, the leader of the Africa quilombola community in Moju, Pará, his face grim with anguish. Magno’s complaint points to the abandonment felt in the quilombolas, communities of descendants of Africans brought to Brazil as enslaved laborers. The sense they’ve been deserted is brought about by the lack of help, by the absence of specific health policies, and by the scarcity of official statistics tabulating the number of COVID-19 cases. After months of agony, entities and leaders are arguing in court for the state to recognize the historic vulnerability of the population, which the appearance of the new coronavirus in their territories has accentuated.

COVID rumours hamper Brazil s efforts to vaccinate Indigenous | Coronavirus pandemic News

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil – Indigenous nurse Almeida Tananta battled heavy downpours of tropical rains as he rode his motorbike for hours across the red-soiled dirt tracks of Tabatinga, a municipality in Western Amazonas, which borders the Amazon rainforest and Colombia, and has the largest concentration of Indigenous Brazilians in the Amazon. Tananta was en route to apply the first doses of the COVID-19 vaccine to the remote Umariacu villagers, in Alto Rio Solimoes. But when he arrived at the village of wooden-thatched houses skirting the banks of the Amazon river, the nurse’s hopes of vaccinating the 1,037 villagers quickly vanished.

The Historical Invisibility of Quilombolas During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Multiple Authors Article The igarapé, a large stream, serves as the lifeblood for so many quilombola communities in the Amazon region as a source for food and water and medium of transport. Image by Cícero Pedrosa Neto. The absence of data worsens the damage caused by the novel coronavirus in quilombola communities–descendants of escaped African and Afro-Brazilian slaves–located throughout the Amazon. According to a COVID-19 observatory Quilombola communities in the Brazilian Amazon have already been devastated by the advance of commercial and state interests on their ancestral territories. A traditionally forest and river-dependent peoples, their rural livelihoods have often kept them on the outside of Brazil’s social and economic successes over the years. With limited access to formal education, health services and economic opportunities, their struggle is fundamentally a constitutional one: to be counted and accounted for in the face of longstan

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