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Brazilian Indigenous people from different tribes rally in the capital, Brasilia, as Brazil's Supreme Court weighs the legality of the so-called "time-frame argument," which holds that native peoples should not have the right to lands where they were not present in 1988. IMAGES
The odyssey against the clock to vaccinate indigenous people in the Brazilian AmazonAutazes (Brazil), Feb 6 (EFE), (Camera: Raphael Alves).- In extreme conditions, the vaccination against covid-19 of the indigenous communities of the Brazilian Amazon has become an odyssey against the clock, given the sudden increase in infections. Brazilian health authorities are preparing to immunize in the shortest possible time a vulnerable population that has been decimated throughout history by the emergence of new diseases. FOOTAGE IN AUTAZES, BRAZIL.SOUNDBITES FROM YUAKA MURA:"WE ARE WORKING QUITE HARD TO COVER THIS WHOLE AREA IN THE SHORTEST POSSIBLE TIME."TATO MURA:"THIS VACCINE REPRESENTS HOPE. OUR PEOPLE ARE A VERY FRIGHTENED PEOPLE. THEY ARE NOT USED TO THIS KIND OF PANDEMIC, BUT THANK GOD WE MANAGED TO GIVE THEM ALL HOPE".ROSANE NASCIMENTO:"WE ARE GOING TO LIVE LONGER, BECAUSE WE ARE VACCINATED, IT IS A GUARANTEE. IT IS GRATIFYING FOR ME, FOR THE WHOLE INDIGENOUS FAMILY, IT IS A PRIVILEGE, AN ASSURANCE THAT WE ARE NOW ALL IMMUNE (TO COVID-19)".
Novo Progresso, Aug 18 (EFE).- A group of indigenous people on Tuesday held a protest blockading highway BR-163, an important road that crosses Brazil from north to south, against a lack of medical assistance for COVID-19, environmental concerns and the president's infrastructure plans for the Amazon.Members of the Kayapó ethnic group sat on the asphalt in Novo Progresso municipality in the Amazonian state of Pará, located in the north of Brazil, waiting to be heard by regional authorities.(Camera: ERNESTO CARRICO)FOOTAGE SHOWS A GROUP OF INDIGENEOUS PEOPLE PROTESTING IN THE BR-163 ROAD IN NOVO PROGRESSO, IN THE STATE OF PARÁ IN THE NORTH OF BRAZIL.
Dozens of members of Brazil's Kayapo indigenous community block a major trans-Amazonian road to protest against the lack of support given by Jair Bolsonaro's government to combat the COVID-19 pandemic and demand that deforestation be brought to an end. IMAGES
Madrid, Dec 9 (EFE) .- Indigenous people of the Brazilian Amazon have warned Monday of the death of their peoples and that their blood "is being spilled" and demanded that the original peoples be protected because they are "the true defenders of the climate".TRANSLATION"The indigenous peoples are dying, the true guardians of the forests are being killed. We cannot allow life to go away. It is the alert that I give because it is the responsibility of all, of all rulers, of all societies, of all human beings "
U.S. President Barack Obama attends an outdoor arrival ceremony in heavy rain, as the first sitting U.S. president to visit Laos. Rough Cut (no reporter narration).