The Yanomamis tribe lived in his land with great tranquility until the 1980s, when gold fever exploded in full Amazonia. More than 40,000 miners, in their vast illegal majority, have since arrived at that territory to maintain a business that increases as a large part of the area continues.
To the north of Brazil and south of Venezuela, the Yanomamis are distributed in around 250 communities in a territory that reaches 19 million hectares, or what is the same, four times the size of Switzerland. Currently, indigenous ethnic group survives the exploitation of natural resources that causes diseases, poisoning, aggressions, violations and persecutions to those who oppose.
Indigenous leaders have repeatedly denounced the situation. For them, the jungle is a real danger to its inhabitants, due to different factors: wild labor exploitation (endless working days in exchange for a garment or a can of food); the transmission of fatal diseases; the contamination of rivers and forests with mercury; Violence against the indigenous population, and especially against their women.
The UN shows its concern about this fact, and the Venezuelan government promised to investigate it. At the moment, however, the results are not satisfactory.
Someone once said that, in addition to worrying about which planet we are going to leave our children, some should reflect on what children we are going to leave to our planet.
