Acre: Brazil Bolsters Security As ‘Crisis Situation’ Threatens Uncontacted Indians

Acre: Brazil Bolsters Security As ‘Crisis Situation’ Threatens Uncontacted Indians   The Brazilian government says it will dispatch National Security Force agents to help protect a tribe of uncontacted Indians missing after drug traffickers attacked a government guard post.   Last week Survival International reported that heavily armed drug traffickers from Peru had surrounded and ransacked the base in the western Brazilian Amazon. Fears for the Indians’ welfare grew after workers from FUNAI...

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