Sinister Cultural Marxist
8th August 2011, 20:57
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-14451878
Remote Brazilian tribe threatened by 'drug dealers'
http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/54492000/jpg/_54492307_51038172.jpg Guards found a broken arrow believed to belong to the tribe
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Guards in the Brazilian jungle protecting a tribe of Indians who have had no contact with the outside world say their guard post has been attacked by armed men.
Brazil's Indian Affairs Department said a guard post in Acre state had been surrounded by suspected drug dealers.
It said it feared the men wanted to traffic drugs from Peru into Brazil through the area where the tribe lives.
The tribe was first photographed from the air three years ago.
The five people manning the post said they were surrounded.
"They're coming at us from three sides, we have nowhere to run," Carlos Lisboa Travassos, the head of the Brazilian government's Isolated Indians Department, told local media via e-mail.
The post is on the shores of the Xinane river, just 23km (15 miles) from the Peruvian border, but more than 200km from the nearest Brazilian city.
It was set up by Brazil's Indian Affairs Department (Funai) to protect the tribe of Panoan Indians after they were first filmed from the air in 2008.
Broken arrow
Mr Travassos said he was worried about the tribe.
He said that on Saturday the guards found a rucksack belonging to one of the armed men which contained a broken arrow, most likely seized from members of the tribe.
http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/54492000/gif/_54492680_brazil_acre_0811.gif The post is in a remote part of Acre, near the Peruvian border
"Arrows are like the identity card of uncontacted Indians," said Mr Travassos.
"This situation could be one of the biggest blows we have ever seen in the protection of uncontacted Indians in recent decades."
It is not clear why the armed gang had attacked the post, but local media say the men, believed to be from Peru, could be crossing through the tribe's territory while smuggling drugs into Brazil.
There are also reports that they could be trying to clear the area to grow coca, the plant from which cocaine is derived.
Anthropologist Terri Aquino, who is one of the five people at the Xinane post, said they had received no back-up from the police or the army, but that a group of Ashaninka and Kaxinawa Indians had joined them to help defend the territory.
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Aside from that problem, you have drug lords with guns going up into tribal areas where the people have arrows. We don't know how they will respond to contact, but if they try to defend their territory with force they will be going up against people with firearms.
Remote Brazilian tribe threatened by 'drug dealers'
http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/54492000/jpg/_54492307_51038172.jpg Guards found a broken arrow believed to belong to the tribe
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Guards in the Brazilian jungle protecting a tribe of Indians who have had no contact with the outside world say their guard post has been attacked by armed men.
Brazil's Indian Affairs Department said a guard post in Acre state had been surrounded by suspected drug dealers.
It said it feared the men wanted to traffic drugs from Peru into Brazil through the area where the tribe lives.
The tribe was first photographed from the air three years ago.
The five people manning the post said they were surrounded.
"They're coming at us from three sides, we have nowhere to run," Carlos Lisboa Travassos, the head of the Brazilian government's Isolated Indians Department, told local media via e-mail.
The post is on the shores of the Xinane river, just 23km (15 miles) from the Peruvian border, but more than 200km from the nearest Brazilian city.
It was set up by Brazil's Indian Affairs Department (Funai) to protect the tribe of Panoan Indians after they were first filmed from the air in 2008.
Broken arrow
Mr Travassos said he was worried about the tribe.
He said that on Saturday the guards found a rucksack belonging to one of the armed men which contained a broken arrow, most likely seized from members of the tribe.
http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/54492000/gif/_54492680_brazil_acre_0811.gif The post is in a remote part of Acre, near the Peruvian border
"Arrows are like the identity card of uncontacted Indians," said Mr Travassos.
"This situation could be one of the biggest blows we have ever seen in the protection of uncontacted Indians in recent decades."
It is not clear why the armed gang had attacked the post, but local media say the men, believed to be from Peru, could be crossing through the tribe's territory while smuggling drugs into Brazil.
There are also reports that they could be trying to clear the area to grow coca, the plant from which cocaine is derived.
Anthropologist Terri Aquino, who is one of the five people at the Xinane post, said they had received no back-up from the police or the army, but that a group of Ashaninka and Kaxinawa Indians had joined them to help defend the territory.
Fuckers pose a very real and immediate danger to the lives of people in these tribes. The threat isn't only cultural contact, but the fact that the tribes have a greatly increased risk of catching very serious diseases which could kill 90% of the population or more if medical care cannot be sent into the deep jungle. Indigenous peoples of the deep Amazon, as far as we know, have not been exposed to all or even any of the diseases which the Europeans brought and killed most of the native population.
Aside from that problem, you have drug lords with guns going up into tribal areas where the people have arrows. We don't know how they will respond to contact, but if they try to defend their territory with force they will be going up against people with firearms.