Mourning and exile: Pataxós expelled from their own land denounce routine threats and deaths in Bahia

On March 4, M. Pataxó had his house shot at with dozens of bullets, in Porto Seguro (BA). The father was hit in the face and suffered a torn cheek; the brother was hit in the buttock and suffered a bladder injury; the two-year-old son, hidden, escaped by a few centimeters. Since then, the family has had to leave the community. The episode was allegedly retaliation by organized crime in Aldeia Xandó, in the Barra Velha Indigenous Territory (TI). …