A Brazil court has ordered the Bolsonaro government to take action to remove illegal gold miners from the Yanomami Indigenous reservation in the Amazon.
A federal court has ordered the Brazilian government to expel an estimated 20,000 illegal gold miners from the Yanomami indigenous reservation to protect one of the most isolated Amazon tribes from the spread of coronavirus.
Some 27,000 Yanomami live on a vast reservation twice the size of Switzerland and have been invaded for decades by gold miners who have brought diseases fatal to their people. Yanomami leaders say the number of prospectors on their land has surged since Mr Bolsonaro was elected president in 2018, vowing to develop the Amazon and to tap its mineral riches even by allowing miners onto protected Indigenous reservations.Donald Trump blasts 'left-wing cultural revolution' and 'far-left fascism' in Mount Rushmore speech
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