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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 month...

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 ...