Guajajara was a vocal critic of former president Jair Bolsonaro (AFP/Getty)
She was a month into her new job, and Sonia Guajajara’s plate was already full. Brazil‘s first minister of indigenous peoples was in Boa Vista, the capital of Roraima state, responding to a crisis she had called a “genocide”.
She had visited a hospital where scores of Yanomami, an indigenous group in the Amazon, had been taken to be treated for disease; a consequence of the illegal mining that had surged in their territory under the government of former president Jair Bolsonaro.
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