The climate of tension in that Amazon area has grown since last January, when the government of Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva began an operation to withdraw the miners who operate clandestinely in that region.
The Brazilian authorities reported this Sunday that, among the 14 dead found in recent days on Yanomami land, in the midst of conflicts between illegal miners and indigenous people, there were three Venezuelan citizens.
According to what was reviewed by EFEthe bodies began to be found in the middle of the jungle last Monday and the investigation suggests that the deaths were the product of clashes that have been taking place since last January in this indigenous territory, located on the border with Venezuela.
Among the deceased, the Legal Medical Institute of Boa Vista, capital of Roraima, identified this Sunday the Venezuelans Joel Perdomo, 68, Jenni Rangel, 28, and Johandri Perdomo, 24.
Roraima is the gateway for most of the nearly 300,000 Venezuelans who, in recent years, have come to Brazil seeking to escape the crisis their country has plunged into.
Jenni Rangel’s body was found this Saturday and, according to what some of her relatives told local media, she had arrived in Brazil, like the other two Venezuelans, just over two years ago.
The three would have entered the Yanomami land more than a year ago to work in a “garimpo”, as the mining camps are known in Brazil that, in most cases, as occurs in that indigenous region, carry out their activity in an illegal way.
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The climate of tension in that Amazon area has grown since last January, when the government of Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva began an operation to withdraw the miners who operate clandestinely in that region.
The decision was made after a delicate health situation and hundreds of indigenous people with severe malnutrition and other diseases were discovered, all attributed to the contamination of the rivers caused by mercury and other minerals dumped by the miners in the waters.
According to a recent official balance, since the end of January some 330 illegal camps have been destroyed in that region, inhabited by 38,000 indigenous people and which had been invaded by some 20,000 miners, encouraged by the policies of the previous government, chaired by the far-right Jair Bolsonaro.
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