Indigenous protest action in Brazil

17 August 2020, Brazil, Novo Progresso: Members of the indigenous Kayapó people block the BR-163 highway and prevent vehicles from passing through, a family is walking along on the left. They are demonstrating against poor health care in the fight against corona virus in indigenous settlements. The protests are also directed, however, against the lack of updating of a basic environmental plan and the government's unwillingness to engage in talks on the concession procedures for a private initiative for the BR-163 motorway and on the planning for Ferrogrão, a project to build a rail link between the states of Mato Grosso and Pará, which will run less than 50 kilometres from the Kayapós' territories. Photo: Fernando Souza/dpa (Photo by Fernando Souza/picture alliance via Getty Images)