Indigenous infections grew amid slow Brazil agency response

Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro’s repeated promotion of developing the vast Amazon has for months prompted indigenous activists, celebrities and agents on the ground to sound the alarm.In the face of a spreading pandemic, they warn inaction is enough to wipe out many indigenous people.The Associated Press spoke to four agents who work with indigenous peoples in the farthest reaches of Brazil’s Amazon, and they were unanimous in their conclusion: The national Indian foundation, kno