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Mientras el mundo entero trata de ponerse a salvo de la pandemia, los pueblos indígenas de América Latina agonizan y algunos podrían llegar a desaparecer. El abandono estatal y la ausencia de servicios adecuados de salud integral y agua segura los hace extremadamente vulnerables al virus que se extiende a toda velocidad por el continente. Para evitar que se produzca un etnocidio, los gobiernos de la región deben respetar y apoyar los cordones sanitarios y otras medidas adoptadas por los pueblos indígenas para protegerse a sí mismos, impedir toda actividad extractiva o que implique un riesgo de contagio en sus territorios y alrededores, así como atender urgentemente y de manera coordinada sus necesidades de salud, alimentarias y de protección. Pero la salida de la crisis exige además terminar con la explotación, la discriminación y las desigualdades históricas en la provisión de bienes públicos, , así como garantizar el respeto a los derechos territoriales colectivos y superar un modelo extractivista que destruye la salud de los pueblos indígenas y del planeta.

While the whole world attempts to save itself from the pandemic, the indigenous peoples of Latin America are dying, and some may even disappear. Abandoned by the state and with no adequate comprehensive healthcare services or clean water, they are extremely vulnerable to the virus that is fast expanding throughout the continent. To avert ethnocide, governments in the region must respect and support the quarantine boundaries and other measures adopted by indigenous peoples to protect themselves. Governments must also prevent any extractive industry activity or activities that imply a risk of contagion in indigenous territories and surrounding areas, and urgently address health, food security and protection needs in a coordinated manner. But to overcome the crisis also requires an end to exploitation, discrimination and historical inequalities in the provision of public resources, as well as guaranteeing respect for collective territorial rights and transforming the extractive model that is destroying the health of indigenous peoples and of the planet.

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10.21201/2020.6294

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978-1-78748-629-4

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