Brazil: Guard Post For Uncontacted Indians Over-Run By “Drug Traffickers”

Brazil: Guard Post For Uncontacted Indians Over-Run By “Drug Traffickers”   The Brazilian guard post protecting the uncontacted Indians who were filmed from the air earlier this year has been over-run by heavily-armed men, suspected to be drug-traffickers. It has been ransacked, and vital equipment destroyed.   Fears are now mounting for the welfare of the Indians after workers from FUNAI (the government’s Indian Affairs Department) found one of the traffickers’ rucksacks with a broken arrow...

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