Yanomami indigenous people play football at Surucucu village, in Yanomami indigenous land, Roraima state, Brazil August 26 2024. REUTERS/Amanda Perobelli
SURUCUCU, Brazil (Reuters) - Brazil has almost squashed the illegal gold rush that led thousands of wildcat miners into the Yanomami reservation in the Amazon rainforest and caused a humanitarian crisis of disease and malnutrition, the man in charge of operations said.
The Yanomami, South America's largest Indigenous group living in isolation, have returned to a normal way of life, cultivating crops and hunting game, Nilton Tubino told Reuters in an interview on Friday.
