Tag: Amazonian state of Roraima
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - (Reuters) Irisnaide Silva is female, Brazilian and indigenous. And for once, in her view, she is being heard.
For decades her family picked and panned the borderland near Venezuela, scouring the hills for diamonds and...
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - Bishop Roque Paloschi of Porto Velho, Brazil, recalls attending a meeting about development in the Amazonian state of Roraima, home of the indigenous Yanomami people, at which a government official commented that indigenous people...
