Suicide in a Brazil tribe

Hello today i will talk about a new about a Guarani-Kaiowá tribe, original of Brazil.  This article it was written by Jonathan Watts in Rio de Janeiro on Thursday 10 October 2013.

This news talking about a particular situation related with a tribe Guaraní; in the last time are found much dead Youngers for suicide in different parts of the Brazil, specifically in the states of Mato Grosso do Sul a place infested of alcoholism, poverty, depression, violence. This situation is producing a decrease in the number of the indigenous population, especially in the young people.

Why is the reason of the continuous decease? The reason is simple: the Guarani people are separated and take off their lands, and many of their customs are lost, their religion and almost all their cosmology. In addition they are suffering many humiliations because they need survive work hardly, in precarious labor conditions, nearly to the slavery.

The authorities consider these suicides as epidemic, frequently the numbers of suicides is increasing, but the government doesn’t make a solution.

Finally the article talk about investigations (make by an anthropologist) in other parts of the world and the situation is similar, many other indigenous cultures are decrease their population because the social exclusion, the fast economic growth, counting on the discrimination that suffer the young people in the tribe.

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http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/oct/10/suicide-rates-high-brazil-tribe