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Added on the 06/02/2021 13:00:00 - Copyright : EFE Inglés
Images of a plane in the Brazilian Amazon after fourteen people were killed in a crash while trying to land in stormy weather in the tourist town of Barcelos, leaving no survivors. IMAGES
Novo Progresso, Aug 20 (EFE) .- About a hundred indigenous people from the Amazon returned Thursday to block an important highway in Brazil, this time "indefinitely," until the government responds to the deforestation, fires and the advance of the coronavirus pandemic that's devastating their territories.Just one day after allowing the flow of traffic on the federal highway BR-163, which crosses the country from north to south, members of the Kayapó ethnic group established a new blockade near the municipality of Novo Progresso, in the northern state of Pará. (Camera: ERNESTO CARICO)FOOTAGE SHOWS INDIGENOUS PEOPLE AT THE ROAD BLOCKADE IN NOVO PROGRESSO, BRAZIL.
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.
Llamchamacocha, Ecuador, Jun 29 (EFE), (Camera: Juan Francisco Chávez).- Wearing a Barcelona football shirt, a boy from the Sápara indigenous people glides down a river in the Ecuadorian Amazon in a canoe.He knows everything about the jungle, although he has no idea who Argentine soccer star Lionel Messi is.By the time they are 10 years old children in this indigenous community nimbly navigate their canoes through the rivers that flow into the Amazon basin.Waterways are the only connection between communities and the Sápara, the smallest of Ecuador's native populations, are fighting for survival with a new threat on the horizon: Covid-19.FOOTAGE OF SÁPARA INDIGENOUS PEOPLE IN ECUADORIAN AMAZON.SOUNDBITES OF-Community leader Manari Ushigua:"We have told the State: let us live as we want to live. The Amazon is our heart and if the Amazon is our heart, we have to take care of it, because if we don't take care of it we will kill it."-Sani Montahuano:"We always say that we dream to live and we live to dream. The dream tells us what is going to happen."
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 "
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