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Two indigenous children rescued after 27 days lost in the Amazon jungle

2022-03-18T16:14:07.432Z


The boys, 6 and 9 years old, were located by chance while Bolsonaro generates protests by awarding the indigenist medal of merit


Vegetation in the Brazilian Amazon, where two brothers have survived lost for 27 days.Dag Durrich (Getty Images/iStockphoto)

The brothers Glauco and Gleison, aged 6 and 9, left their village one day in February to go into the jungle.

They went to see birds and hunt, a typical diversion for children who, like these indigenous people of the Moura ethnic group, live in the depths of the Amazon jungle.

They disappeared.

Nothing was heard of them again until 27 days later, when a neighbor who went into the tropical forest to cut down trees found them by chance on Wednesday.

They were together, conscious, lying on the ground.

Severely malnourished, they were transferred to a hospital in Manaus, the main city in the Brazilian Amazon, according to local press reports.

His case recalls the odyssey experienced by a pilot who survived an accident in Amazonia.

That is the good news among the news of recent days regarding the indigenous issue.

They managed to survive by drinking rainwater, but they have practically not eaten in these four weeks, according to the doctors who treat them.

When they were located they weighed 15 and 12 kilos.

His parents, who have eight other children, had alerted the authorities of his disappearance, but the search tasks were suspended after five days.

After wandering through the jungle for 27 days, they were found in an inhospitable area 15 kilometers from the point where their family lost track of them.

A crowd received them in Manicore, 300 kilometers from Manaus, where they arrived by boat.

There, the doctor Suzy Serfaty gave them a first check-up.

"They arrived with malnutrition, severe dehydration, prerenal failure and a generalized infection, with many skin lesions," she explained in a video.

The oldest of the brothers explained to the doctor that they did not find any river from which to obtain food.

Both receive specialized care in Manaus.

The joy for the location of the living kids coincides with the criticism of indigenous people and groups that defend them for the controversy over an award to the President of the Republic.

Jair Bolsonaro has awarded himself, through the Ministry of Justice, the indigenous merit medal, ignoring the fact that since he came to power he has weakened all the protection mechanisms of this community and that his plans to authorize the exploitation of indigenous lands the natives would destroy traditional ways of life.

And, in a gesture of enormous symbolism, Sydney Possuelo, the best-known living indigenist in Brazil, former head of Funai, the body created to protect them, returned this Thursday the medal that was awarded to him in 1991.

Person, this attitude of Sidney Possuelo is consistent with his story, I am very proud to have shared a time of my life with this lady in the depths of the forests of Vale do Javari pic.twitter.com/1GKNTv3grk

– Beto Marubo (@BetoMarubo) March 17, 2022

Along with the president, several of his ministers were awarded for their supposed services in favor of the natives.

He is an affront on the part of a president that the natives consider the most pernicious of recent times, to the point of denouncing him before an international court.

As Possuelo recalled when returning his medal, the president praised the extermination policy of the US when he was a deputy.

“The Brazilian cavalry was very incompetent.

The one from the United States was competent, which in the past decimated its Indians and today there they do not have that problem, ”said the politician according to the indigenista's account.

For Bolsonaro, that 12% of the Brazilian territory are untouchable lands where 800,000 Brazilian indigenous people live is a waste of manna.

In addition, on Thursday the arrest of a director of the National Indian Foundation (Funai) was known for brokering the rental of parcels on indigenous lands in the state of Mato Grosso to agricultural entrepreneurs, something strictly prohibited.

The detainee is a retired military officer appointed by the Bolsonaro government, who separated the technicians to place uniformed officers in charge of the indigenous and environmental protection agencies.

Among those arrested, there is also a leader of the Xavante people.

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Source: elparis

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