A woman from the Guajajara indigenous ethnic group wearing a protective mask holds a child at a community center in the indigenous village of Urucu Jurua, municipality of Grajau, Maranhao state, Brazil October 3, 2020. Carlos Travassos, a former head…more
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Saturday, October 03, 2020
A woman from the Guajajara indigenous ethnic group wearing a protective mask holds a child at a community center in the indigenous village of Urucu Jurua, municipality of Grajau, Maranhao state, Brazil October 3, 2020. Carlos Travassos, a former head of isolated tribes at the government’s indigenous affairs agency Funai, said the medical outreach was a media operation to show that the government was fighting COVID-19 among indigenous communities.
“This was just for Englishmen to see,” he said, using a Brazilian expression for doing things for the sake of appearances. REUTERS/Adriano Machado
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