Robert Muggah, co-founder of the Igarapé Institute: “The catastrophe befalling the Yanomami is a tragedy foretold. The new Lula administration officially declared a health emergency in the Yanomami lands on Jan. 20 after a rapid assessment exposed chronic malnutrition, including the premature deaths of 570 children. The drivers of the crisis are rampant land grabbing, illegal mining and pollution of local ecosystems. Yet the architect of the humanitarian disaster is former President Jair Bolsonaro, who Lula accuses of facilitating genocide. Faced with possible crimes of omission, Bolsonaro claims that the Yanomami catastrophe is not his fault. The former president’s protests ring hollow: he has a well-documented history of undermining the interest of Brazil’s Indigenous people–particularly the Yanomami. During his more than three decades in politics, Bolsonaro introduced multiple bills to shrink Indigenous territories, accelerate land occupation and expand mining in protected areas. As president, Bolsonaro…”