Brazilian Indigenous: Catastrophe in Brumadinho, MG, Threatens Survival of Local Indigenous Community
“It died at 9am in the morning of Saturday [26 January 2019]”, says one member of the indigenous community Nao Xohã in reference to the river Paraopeba. The community composed of 18 families lives in São Joaquim de Bicas, 22km away from Brumadinho, where a dam on a complex owned by the national mining company Vale SA collapsed last Friday, 25 January 2019. Relying on the river...