Photojournalist Sebastião Salgado: Brazil’s Reckless COVID Response Threatens Indigenous Survival
by mail@democracynow.org (Democracy Now!) from Democracy Now! on (#53XY1)
As Brazil sees more than 800 deaths in 24 hours and nearly 400,000 confirmed cases, we look at COVID-19's devastating impact on Brazil's Indigenous peoples, who are dying at double the rate of the rest of the country. We speak with world-renowned Brazilian photojournalist Sebastiao Salgado, who wrote an open letter to right-wing President Jair Bolsonaro, who called the virus a little flu," to warn him the pandemic is an extreme threat to their very survival."