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Gold rush in Brazil reopens Yanomami land wounds

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Alto Alegre (Brazil), Jul 11 ??(EFE) (Camera: Alba Santandreu / Joedson Alves / Sesai) .- The Yanomami land is an infinite horizon of untouched jungle, but from the sky the wounds opened by the gold rush are visible. Illegal miners have spread across Brazil's largest indigenous territory and are now threatening to spread old and new diseases, such as malaria and COVID-19.FOOTAGE OF THE YANOMAMI LAND AND COMMUNITIES WHO LIVE IN IT.SOUNDBITES AND TRANSLATIONS OF:EDUARDO YEKUANA, LEADER OF THE WAIKAS VILLAGE:"We are very worried because of the 'garimpos' (non-official miners) because they are contaminating our rivers and bringing diseases."JOAO RIBAMAR, RESIDENT OF A VILLAGE IN THE SURUCUCU REGION (speaking non-native Portuguese):"Dirty water, humid rain, dirty water, ill women, children drink water and have diarrhoea, worms, stomach worms, coughs and sore throats.""There's no river, just small streams, there's no big fish, there's hunger.""I bless it when it comes, when the river gives me food, fish, when I hunt, when women get shrimp.""There's a lot of malaria, a lot of illnesses."

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