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Yanomami Indigenous people eat food cooked on fire in Boa Vista, Roraima state, Brazil, Thursday, Feb. 9, 2023. Many Yanomami Indigenous are living in the streets after years of neglect during the previous government of far-right President Jair Bolsonaro led to a health crisis among the Yanomami while gold miners swarmed illegally into their territory. (AP Photo/Edmar Barros)

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Health crisis leads scores of Yanomami to roam the streets
By FABIANO MAISONNAVE AND EDMAR BARROS - Associated Press
Fri,02/10/23-9:35PM , 129 Reads
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.
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Miners walk for days to leave the Yanomami Indigenous territory ahead of expected operations against illegal mining in Alto Alegre, Roraima state, Brazil, Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2023. The government declared a public health emergency for the Yanomami people in the Amazon, who are suffering from malnutrition and diseases such as malaria as a consequence of illegal mining. (AP Photo/Edmar Barros)

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Brazil pushes illegal miners out of Yanomami territory
By FABIANO MAISONNAVE AND EDMAR BARROS
Wed,02/08/23-9:33AM , 119 Reads
ALTO ALEGRE, Brazil (AP) — Armed government officials with Brazil's justice, Indigenous and environment ministries pressed illegal gold miners out of Yanomami Indigenous territory Wednesday, citing widespread river contamination, famine and disease they have brought to one of the most isolated groups in the world.
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