One of South America's oldest tribes battles for survival in Brazil
The Guarani Indian tribe was always easy to miss even though it has lived in Sao Paulo for more than three centuries. Now the tribe could disappear entirely as the government plans to reduce the size of their reservation.
The United Nations has urged Brazil to ensure that the human rights of the Guarani indigenous people are fully respected. But so far, that plea seems to have fallen on deaf ears.
One of South America's oldest tribes is battling for the survival of its way of life in Brazil.
The Guarani Indians have lived in present-day Sao Paulo for more than three centuries, and the Jaragua reservation is home to roughly 700 people.
The government had promised to allocate them new land in the 1990s.
But two decades later, most still live in squalid roadside camps, and now they fear eviction.
TRT World's Christine Pirovolakis reports.
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