The invasion of illegal mining mafias, with more than 20,000 "garimpeiros" - self-employed gold seekers - in the indigenous lands of the Yanomami tribe - in the northern Amazon of Brazil - is causing social, economic and environmental havoc, to To such an extent that indigenous peoples are being subjected to slave labor, they suffer malnutrition due to the mercury that is thrown into rivers and kills fish, and adolescents and girls are victims of sexual abuse. A report released this week indicates that the Yanomami Indigenous Land, located in Roraima, a state bordering Venezuela and Guyana, has become loot for the gold mafias, who have installed 35 clandestine landing strips. This is an unprecedented advance since 2019, when President Jair Bolsonaro took office, who defends mining in environmental and indigenous reserves and called himself an ally of the "garimpeiros." In 2021, illegal mining increased by 46% compared to 2020 and since 2016, the year in which President Dilma Rousseff was impeached, the presence of the gold mafia in indigenous lands has increased by 3.3%. The complaint is within the devastating report of the Hutukara Associação Yanomami, an entity formed by the indigenous leaders themselves, which led to the Federal Public Ministry requesting last Wednesday the "urgent" intervention of the Federal Police and the central government in the Yanomami lands. to protect the 350 communities that live there in the middle of the jungle.