Brazil: high-risk expedition to contact isolated tribe declared success

[Judi Lynn]

Thirty-person expedition, including Funai officials and a doctor, contacted and vaccinated 34 people from the Korubo tribe
Dom Phillips in Rio de Janeiro
Fri 5 Apr 2019 16.11 EDT

Brazil’s biggest and most ambitious expedition in decades to contact a voluntarily isolated indigenous tribe has been declared a success after venturing deep into remote and inaccessible Amazon jungle.The rare, high-risk expedition aimed to prevent potential conflict between tribal groups in a vast and remote reserve near Brazil’s Peruvian border.


Thirty people, including officials from its indigenous agency Funai, indigenous people from four local tribes, a doctor and medical officials, successfully contacted and vaccinated 34 people from the Korubo tribe.

“We had some incredible moments which we will never forget. Our hope is that [the Korubos’] lives are good from here on,” said expedition leader Bruno Pereira, head of the department of isolated and recently contacted indigenous at Funai.

More:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/apr/05/brazil-high-risk-expedition-indigenous-tribe-success

[tirebiter]

1. Now they can be relocated

And oil exploration can begin.

[Judi Lynn]

2. I'm not even sure they'll bother to relocate them.

Brazil has a monstrous history of murdering indigenous people, absolutely evil.

I felt sick, too, just seeing this article, because it's got to be seen as a true threat and a warning of what's coming.

You without a doubt are right.