Bolivia: COVID-19 Death Threat to Bolivian Amazon's Indigenous Peoples
The Bolivian state recognizes at least 36 Indigenous nations that are sparsely populated.
Bolivia’s Center for Legal Studies and Social Research (CEJIS) denounced that the COVID-19 pandemic can devastate the Bolivian Amazon's Indigenous peoples close to the Santa Cruz and Beni regions.
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"We are very short of witnessing a catastrophe," the CEJIS director Miguel Vargas said to warn of a possible "ethnocide" in more vulnerable Indigenous populations.
He explained that 46 out of 58 indigenous territories are close to municipalities in which the number of COVID-19 cases continues to increase exponentially.
This happens, for example, in Lomerio and Urubicha in the Department of Santa Cruz, where the Yu...





