politicodiary

In fear of getting wiped out as a ethnic community, indigenous groups in South America are shunning away any contact with foreign visitors Tribes fear extinction at the hands of the Corona Virus The pandemic is a silent war we are waging- there is no escape and this has been understood even by the indigenous groups residing in South America. Indigenous tribes are now locking down and closing off their reserves to visitors for the fear of contracting the corona virus. The fear of the pandemic is fast spreading across South America and they might be right in believing that it would wipe them out.  As social distancing becomes a norm, for those living as tribes, this is extremely difficult to implement. Indigenous groups have been trying to fight for their survival. Their existence is threatened by oil exploration, deforestation and illegal logging. The tribe groups are spread from Columbia to Brazil. There are reasons to believe that the tribes might not have devel...