Record number of Indigenous candidates take part in Brazil elections

As attacks on Indigenous people escalated under Bolsonaro, 181 candidates who identify as Indigenous are registered to take part in the election As the first wave of Covid infections ravaged Manaus in Brazil – forcing residents to bury their loved ones in mass graves – Vanda Ortega Witoto toiled away in minimal protective equipment, trying to keep the virus at bay in the Amazon city’s long-neglected Indigenous neighbourhood. When the ambulance service refused to send out a vehicle to the area – which had no healthcare infrastructure nor running water – the nurse technician, who goes simply by Vanda, drove the Covid patient to hospital herself. Continue reading...
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