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RIO DE JANEIRO – Extermination, virus genocide, since in the distant past it was unthinkable it could return. The great Brazilian photographer Sebastião Salgado intervenes on behalf of the Amazon Indians and organizes an international appeal. Today, more than 60 personalities from around the world sign a manifesto petition addressed to the three powers of the Brazilian state so that everything possible can be done to avoid a massacre in the last great rain forest on Earth. Salgado collects musical names (Paul McCartney, Madonna and Chico Buarque), cinema (Brad Pitt, Richard Gere, Meryl Streep, Oliver Stone, Pedro Almodóvar), the writer Mario Vargas Llosa, Alberto de Mónaco and Gisele Bundchen. New subscriptions will be received on Avaaz’s online platform, and a short video by director Fernando Meirelles for the Contrasto agency will contain twenty photographs of Salgado himself with the aim of viralizing online.
The Brazilian photographer and activist has spent the last seven years in contact with indigenous tribes in the Amazon., the theme of an upcoming exhibition that will open in April next year in four cities, including Rome. “Only from great catastrophes do great solidarity movements and real concerns for the future of humanity arise,” Salgado said in an interview with the newspaper. Or balloon from Paris, where he is quarantined. Covid-19 is only the least of the threats to Amazonian Indians, already besieged by farmers, hunters of precious woods and various invaders, in a critical phase in which the Jair Bolsonaro government ideologically opposes its defense and fires. They are intensifying. The nemesis now faces a terrible contagion, as in centuries past, when contact with whites was enough to cause massacres in the population with weak immune defenses. “If that happens, Brazil’s responsibility will be enormous, and my country will be brought before international courts for not avoiding the massacre,” says Salgado.
It is very worrying that the virus has already reached the main cities of the Amazon region and is spreading rapidly., opposing the hypothesis that warm weather functions as an obstacle to diffusion. Images of Manaus, of large trenches dug in cemeteries for collective burials, have already been circulating for days and the state of hospitals is dramatic due to a lack of beds and respirators. If we add to this the distances and travel times in a region where we mainly move along the rivers, the Brazilian Amazon, even before remote villages are affected, is already one of the most critical regions in the world. world for pandemic. Almost everywhere in the forest, tribal chiefs decided to break contact with the outside world and, when possible, Indians moved into their protected areas to live like their ancestors. Hoping not to suffer the same fate.
May 3, 2020 (change May 3, 2020 | 5:02 pm)
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