Image copyrightAFPOne of the best-known indigenous defenders of the Amazon rainforest has died with coronavirus in Brazil, where the disease continues its rapid spread.
Paulinho Paiakan, chief of the Kayapó people, came to international attention in the 1980s in the fight against Belo Monte, one of the world’s largest dams.
He was around 65. In 1998, he was convicted of the rape of an 18-year-old, a case that hurt his reputation.
Covid-19 has hit Brazil’s vulnerable indigenous communities hard.
The country is among the world’s worst affected, and the outbreak is believed to be weeks away from its peak. Brazil has the second-highest numbers of infections – over 955,000 – and deaths, more than 46,500, after the US.
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