Brazil’s military should evict illegal gold miners who have caused malnutrition and starvation in a region of the Yanomami reservation near the Venezuelan border, Brazil's Indigenous health secretary says.
BRASILIA, Brazil — Brazil’s military should evict illegal gold miners who have caused malnutrition and starvation in a region of the Yanomami reservation near the Venezuelan border, Indigenous Health Secretary Weibe Tapeba said on Tuesday.
Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, left, visits the Yanomami Indigenous Health House in the Boa Vista rural area of Roraima state in Brazil on Saturday.Brazil’s ministry of health on Friday declared a medical emergency in the Yanomami territory, the country’s largest indigenous reservation, following reports of children dying of malnutrition and other diseases brought by gold mining.
“Health teams cannot get here because of the heavily armed bandits. This can only be resolved by removing the gold miners and that can only be done by the armed forces,” he said.
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