BOA VISTA, Brazil (AP) — From a distance, the small group lying on the sidewalk outside the city market could be confused with hundreds of homeless people spread through Boa Vista. But they are ...

Illegal miners known as garimpeiros are beginning to leave the lands of the Yanomami indigenous peoples after a federal raid to evict them was announced by President Luiz Inácio Lula Da Silva, ...

BOA VISTA, Brazil (AP) — Severe malnutrition and disease, particularly malaria, are decimating the Yanomami population in Brazil's Amazon rainforest, and on Jan. 20 the federal government declared a ...

Brazil's Federal Police is to investigate the sanitary crisis among the Yanomami people as a crime of genocide, Justice Minister Flávio Dino said Wednesday. Dino confirmed the opening of an inquiry to ...

Claudia Andujar, "Collective house near the Catholic mission on the Catrimani River, Roraima state" (1976), mineral pigment print (from infrared film), 35.8 x 55.1 ...

Brazil’s President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has accused his predecessor, Jair Bolsonaro, of committing “genocide” against the Indigenous Yanomami people of the Amazon. Lula blamed the former ...

Shaman Davi Kopenawa Yanomami furrowed his brow as he stared out at the skyscrapers and buildings looming through the window of his oak-panelled hotel room in New York City. “I’m here, in the city of ...

Health ministry sends team to investigate ‘concerning’ virus cases in Yanomami territory near Venezuelan border Ten Yanomami children died from Covid-19 in January, fueling fears over the ...

BOA VISTA, BrazilBOA VISTA, Brazil — Severe malnutrition and disease, particularly malaria, are decimating the Yanomami population in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest, and on Jan. 20 the federal government ...

Severe malnutrition and disease, particularly malaria, are decimating the Yanomami population in Brazil's Amazon rainforest. On January 20, the federal government declared a public health emergency.