Venezuelan deputy says that malnourished Yanomami are from his country and not Brazil
The deputy of the National Assembly of Venezuela, Romel Guzamana, said through social networks that the indigenous Yanomami ethnic group with signs of malnutrition in Brazil are refugees from hunger in the neighboring country who crossed the border.
“I denounce the serious malnutrition of our indigenous Yanomami brothers from Bolivar state.”
“They crossed to Brazil in search of food, another violation of indigenous human rights through the fault of Maduro’s regime,” he wrote, who is from the Popular Will party, the same as opposition leader Juan Guaidó.
In the post, he included a photo of an elderly Yanomami woman who died of malnutrition last Sunday (Jan. 22).
The version about the indigenous people has been disseminated by the opposition of dictator Nicolás Maduro’s regime without support among Brazilian authorities and experts.
In an interview with Folha de S. Paulo, Guzamana, who is an indigenous member of the banned ethnic group and is a member of the Amazonian Parliament, said that Venezuelan Yanomami has kinship relations with Brazilian indigenous people.
“Indians don’t have borders. In Venezuela, they have no sustenance, food, or medicine. Many came to Brazil in search of survival,” he says.
He claims to have obtained reports from indigenous people in the Amazon region to spread this version.
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