Deaths of indgenous people

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Source: http://www.abc.com.py/abc/nota/26024-Real-causa-de-muerte-es-extrema-miseria/

DO NOT DISCARD "POISONING AS ONE OF THE FACTORS OF INDIGENOUS DEATHS
Real cause of death is extreme poverty

Family tacuaruz? indigenous community, Caazap?, one of three in the area where deaths have been reported for alleged poisoning with agrochemicals. Still have not found the bodies and the causes have been identified. There are crops of wheat, but at 250 meters, and the soybean season is over in March-April. However, it is able to confirm widespread malnutrition, influenza and pneumonia.

San Juan Nepomuceno (Antonio Caballero, correspondent). Still not found the bodies of dead natives, allegedly poisoned by agrochemicals. The criminal prosecutor in this town, Vidal France Zaracho, along with his assistant Carlos Ramirez and a team from the Health Ministry was formed last Friday Ypeti communities, Cerrito and tacuaruz?.

The justice agent said the search will continue tomorrow where the Indians buried the dead, allegedly from exposure to chemicals. The natives, witness statement, the prosecutor said that the bodies are in the bush, but could not specify the place where they were buried.

Recall that the District Municipality mayor Aba'i, Augusto Martinez (NRA), had said last Thursday, by radio media, the death of six natives of his district, was a result of the misuse of pesticides on crops surrounding indigenous communities Ypeti Taji, Cerrito and tacuaruz?.

However, during the inspection by health officials, what was found was that people were stricken by influenza, respiratory diseases, pneumonia and malnutrition.

The specialists also ruled that the native population is subject to chronic exposure. This will involve considering that some wheat crops that are indigenous to the area surrounding lack the barriers and security strip, but the crop is closer to 250 meters.

Meanwhile, the chief Pedro Barreto of tacuaruz?, noted that the deaths of the infants was during the cold month of July this year. He reported that a child is 2 years and two babies, twins latter.

During his statement implied that attributes the death of three brothers to pesticide poisoning, but contradictorily said in recent months was not done spraying in nearby crops. The prosecutor clarified that remains to prove that the deaths actually occurred, research to be conducted with support from the authorities of India and later find the bodies and request the Court guarantees the exhumation of the bodies.

In turn, the teacher at the community mentioned Ezilda Knight, said the cause of death of the creatures more points to other causes that agrochemical poisoning. "The child was two, was with a flu-like box, was not medicated, the dam was nearly full-term pregnant, with twins, until he took the breast 10 days before delivery. It was possibly complicated by the lack of adequate food, along with the flu the cause of death, "she responded.

He added that the newborn twins once again have the same flu symptoms and also died.

For his part, Roque Garcete, Department of Epidemiology of the Sixth Health Region, said that up all the data provided by the leaders of affected communities, but only through analysis can have an idea of what is happening among the indigenous said.

However, the chief Brigadier Vulnerable Communities, Dr. Pablo Balmaceda said that this would supposedly chronic poisoning, lack of living barrier surrounding crops. In turn, Esteban Duarte, secretary of Indian Affairs of the Government of Caazap?, lamented that the plight of indigenous brothers want to use to create psychosis against agricultural producers and that this situation will be exploited against the proposed redistricting of the colony Tup?renda.
September 19, 2009 21:55

 

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Re: Deaths of indgenous people

Source: http://www.ultimahora.com/notas/257824-Salud-confirma-muerte-de-12-nativos-en-Caazapá-en-3-meses-

Google translation:

NATIONAL | 10:30 | Tuesday, September 22nd, 2009
Health confirms death of 12 native Caazap? in 3 months

The Director of Health Surveillance of Health, Ivan Allende, said that in the last three months, 12 are natives died in the department Caazap?, 9 of them, preliminarily, acute respiratory infections, which may be aggravated by exposure to agrochemicals he said.
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"While there were no elements to support cases or deaths from acute poisoning, if it could promote chronic intoxication and this situation coupled with the flu, could condition much more severe respiratory episodes, and that might have led to the deaths of these people" , Allende said Tuesday when asked about the probable cause of the death of indigenous Caazap?.

He noted that according to recent reports investigating the health brigades are getting done "quite finished information about what is happening in the area," although the cause of death has yet to be verified.

Allende, who was appointed by the Ministry of Health as the spokesperson for this event, noted a common factor: chronic exposure to agrochemicals.

"Right now there is no soybeans, but wheat is maturing. That means that these populations are exposed to agrochemicals," said the report that have photographs that confirm the spraying without protective barriers in the area.

The physician indicated that this situation of exposure to agrochemicals coupled with poor living conditions in the natives (who have poor access to health and food), they make it much more vulnerable to disease.

According to the complaint of the residents of communities Aba'?, the demise of indigenous people, mostly children, is due to the indiscriminate use of agrochemicals on crops.

 

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Re: Deaths of indgenous people

Source: http://www.momarandu.com/amanoticias.php?a=7&b=2&c=97291

Google translation:

CAAZAPA-PARAGUAY
Indians die from poisoning
On 16 September the Mayor of Aba'?, Caazap? Department in Paraguay reported through various media the deaths of at least 6 Indians by poisoning with pesticides. His complaint was accompanied by a municipal resolution which declared emergency zone to all indigenous settlements Aba'? District.


The resolution stated that "recent rains in the district could have dragged the chemicals to numerous water channels without any protection because of massive deforestation carried out by settlers brasiguayos for intensive cultivation of grain."

The communities where the deaths occurred were tacuaruz?, Cerrito and Ypeti Tajy. The first does not have own land and is located within the property of the Agricultural Society Swallow, considered a model farm production in the framework of the Roundtable on Responsible Soy.

The government, after deploying an impressive number of envoys and delegations, confirmed through the Ministry of Health that within the past three months died in striking circumstances, at least 12 indigenous Mbya. According to information provided, the deaths were "pictures with more severe acute respiratory exposure to pesticides.

Two of the dead belonged to the community of El Cerrito, five of five Ypet? and that of tacuaruz?. The first delegation to be present in the area was the staff of the National Program for Attention to Indigenous Peoples (PRONAPI) with those of the Health Region and the Directorate of sensitive health ministry.

Report reproduced portal 24.com today that Dr. Celeste Silvero that accompanied it said that "the issue of intoxication is a constant in the area because large manufacturers are soy brasiguayos strangled to native communities of the zone. "

The Ministry of Health commissioned a team of specialists conducting an investigation to seek scientific explanations for the death of the Indians. This Blood samples of one member from each community and took samples of water from which these are supplied.

For tacuaruz?, community drinks water from a spring that is in the middle of a wheat crop in an adjoining property owned by a foreigner. Initial laboratory results indicated that no substances matches in the samples taken.

In practice it is very difficult to prove whether a disease or not to contante exposure to pesticides. Furthermore, cultural issues, it is difficult for the Indians admitted conducting a autopsies. INDI not rule out the culpability of the owners of crops and lodged a complaint with the Public Prosecutor against unnamed persons.

According to Lida Acu?a, the new President of India, 7 of the 12 deaths were "a consequence of respiratory infections and malnutrition, but could be mediated by exposure to chemicals used on crops.

As in Paraguay there are no reagents needed to determine this type of poisoning arises at this time to send new samples of water, blood and soil to overseas laboratories. The delegation of India found that communities are islands in the middle of 24 hectares of different crops of soybeans, wheat and sunflowers.

With the advance of agricultural frontier Mbya communities had become increasingly cornered and surrounded by extensive mechanized cultivation belonging to foreigners and brasiguayos. The defending guild related to agribusiness, dismissed the possibility of poisoning was to conclude that "poverty" the real culprit.

The Indians had "pictures of malnutrition, flu, pneumonia and excessive precariousness of life," he said. In that sense, the alliance of NGOs working in Paraguay, POJOAJU, said in a statement that "in Paraguay's oligarchy field moves at home and buy the silence and complicity of the media"

During 2008, a team of researchers visited the communities in question with intent to analyze the impact generated by the farms that were presented as "success stories" in the second meeting of the Roundtable on Responsible Soy. In its report also warned of the constant exposure to chemicals to which they were exposed communities.

They found that the Indians are forbidden to hunt or fish enter the Reserve, and as they have enough land to produce their food, their food security was seriously threatened. Community members said that no one working for the company and that the fumigations were held weekly between October and February, no matter the weather or wind.

The nearest crop was only 20 meters from the houses, so people repeatedly was forced to flee to take refuge in the mountains to escape the toxic cloud.

Original spanish language:
CAAZAP?-PARAGUAY
Mueren ind?genas por intoxicaci?n
El 16 de setiembre el intendente de Aba??, Departamento de Caazap? en Paraguay denunci? a trav?s de diversos medios de prensa la muerte de al menos 6 ind?genas por intoxicaci?n con agrot?xicos. Su denuncia iba acompa?ada de una resoluci?n municipal que declaraba zona de emergencia a todos los asentamientos ind?genas del Distrito de Aba??.


La resoluci?n afirmaba que ?las ?ltimas lluvias ca?das en el distrito pudieron haber arrastrado los qu?micos hasta los numerosos cauces h?dricos sin ninguna protecci?n debido a la deforestaci?n masiva que llevan a cabo los colonos brasiguayos para los cultivos intensivos de granos?.

Las comunidades donde ocurrieron los decesos fueron Tacuaruz?, Cerrito e Ypeti Tajy. La primera no cuenta con tierras propia y est? ubicada dentro de la propiedad de la Sociedad Agr?cola Golondrina, considerada como una de las fincas modelo de producci?n en el marco de la Mesa Redonda de Soja Responsable.

El gobierno, despu?s de desplegar un impresionante n?mero de enviados y delegaciones, ha confirmado a trav?s del Ministerio de Salud que en el lapso de los ?ltimos tres meses murieron, en circunstancias llamativas, al menos 12 ind?genas Mbya. Seg?n la informaci?n proporcionada, las muertes se debieron a ?cuadros respiratorios agudos con agravamiento a exposiciones agrot?xicas?.

Dos de los muertos pertenec?an a la comunidad de Cerrito, cinco a la de Ypet? y otros cinco a la de Tacuaruz?. La primera delegaci?n en hacerse presente en la zona fue la de funcionarios del Programa Nacional de Atenci?n a los Pueblos Ind?genas (PRONAPI) con los de la Regi?n Sanitaria y la Direcci?n de Sectores Vulnerables del Ministerio de Salud.

Reproduce hoy el portal Reporte 24.com que la doctora Celeste Silvero, que acompa?? a la misma asegur? que ?el problema de la intoxicaci?n es una constante en la zona, porque existen grandes productores brasiguayos de soja que est?n acogotando a las comunidades nativas de la zona?.

El Ministerio de Salud encomend? a un equipo de especialistas la realizaci?n de una investigaci?n que busque explicaciones cient?ficas a la muerte de los ind?genas. Para ello extrajeron muestras de sangre de un miembro de cada comunidad y tomaron muestras de agua de donde estas se abastecen.

En el caso de Tacuaruz?, la comunidad toma agua de un manantial que se encuentra en medio de un cultivo de trigo, en una propiedad aleda?a que pertenece a un extranjero. Los primeros resultados laboratoriales indicaron que no existen sustancias fosforadas en las muestras extra?das.

En la pr?ctica es muy dif?cil probar si una enfermedad se debe o no a la exposici?n contante a agrot?xicos. Adem?s, por cuestiones culturales, es dif?cil que los ind?genas admitan la realizaci?n de una necropcia. El INDI no descart? la culpabilidad de los propietarios de cultivos y present? una denuncia ante el Ministerio P?blico contra personas innominadas.

Seg?n Lida Acu?a, nueva Presidenta del INDI, 7 de las 12 muertes fueron ?a consecuencias de infecciones respiratorias y malnutrici?n, pero pudieron estar propiciadas por la exposici?n a agroqu?micos utilizados en los cultivos?.

Como en Paraguay no existen los reactivos necesarios para determinar este tipo de intoxicaci?n se plantea en este momento el env?o de nuevas muestras de agua, sangre y tierra a laboratorios del extranjero. La delegaci?n del INDI constat? que las comunidades son islas en medio de 24 mil hect?reas de diversos cultivos de soja, trigo y girasol.

Con el avance de la frontera agr?cola las comunidades Mbya hab?an quedado cada vez m?s arrinconadas y rodeadas por extensos cultivos mecanizados que pertenecen a extranjeros y brasiguayos. La defensora de los gremios vinculados a los agronegocios, descart? la posibilidad de una intoxicaci?n para concluir que era ?la pobreza? la verdadera culpable.

Los ind?genas presentaban ?cuadros de desnutrici?n, gripe, neumon?a y excesiva precariedad de vida?, dijo. En ese sentido, la alianza de Ong?s del Paraguay, Pojoaju, expres? en un comunicado que ?en el Paraguay la oligarqu?a del campo se mueve a sus anchas y compra el silencio y la complicidad de los medios de prensa"

Durante el 2008, un equipo de investigadores visit? las comunidades en cuesti?n con la intenci?n de analizar el impacto generado por las fincas que fueron presentadas como ?casos exitosos? en la segunda reuni?n de la Mesa Redonda de la Soja Responsable. En su informe tambi?n se advert?a sobre la constante exposici?n a agroqu?micos a la que estaban expuestas las comunidades.