Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez on Wednesday became the latest senior official to insist there is no evidence of an alleged massacre of some 80 Yanomami indigenous people. Venezuela has said it ...

Brazilian directors Eryk Rocha and Gabriela Carneiro da Cunha's "The Falling Sky" delves into lives of the Amazonian Yanomami people, who live in the heart of the Amazon rainforest where they are ...

Brazil has airlifted 16 starving Yanomami tribal people to receive urgent treatment, after the government declared a medical emergency. The indigenous people live in a reserve in Brazil's northern ...

In the vast wilderness of the rainforest in the south of Venezuela, near the origins of the Orinoco, live the Yanomami Indians, the most isolated people in South America. Their language alone ...

Last week, Special Secretary for Indigenous Health Ricardo Weibe Tapeba said that there has been political interference in the public health care service of the Yanomami people in Roraima.