Local leaders told authorities that four boatloads of men arrived last week and threw tear gas canisters at the Maikohipi village, nestled in the Palimiu region in Brazil’s largest and best-known Indigenous reserve, Yanomami.
There were fewer murders in Brazil’s second city of Rio de Janeiro last year – but the number of killings by police has soared.
Brazil’s new president, Jair Bolsonaro, is making good on a campaign promise to loosen the country’s gun laws.
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