Indigenous tribe blocks key Brazil grains export route

Editado por Ed Newman
2020-08-17 20:05:33

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Kayapo indigenous people block one of Brazil's national highway in Novo Progresso. (Photo: Lucas Landau/Reuters)

Brasilia, August 17 (RHC)-- Members of the Kayapo indigenous tribe blocked a key grains transport route in centre-west Brazil, protesting against a lack of government protection from the coronavirus pandemic that has killed several of their elders.

Kayapo wearing warrior body paint and headdresses used tires and wood to block trucks carrying corn on the BR-163 highway, a Reuters witness said.

They were protesting against the so-called Ferrograo railway, set to cross part of the Amazon to connect grain-producing Mato Grosso state to river ports for soy and corn.


 



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