“This pandemic is taking away our wise men,” Zebelio Kayap, the Indigenous leader of the Organization of Border Communities of Cenepa (ODEFROC), says in a broken voice. Kayap speaks with indignation about what is happening in the communities of the Awajún and Wampis peoples in the Peruvian Amazon. “So far 35 people have died from … Continue reading ‘It’s taking away our wise men’: COVID-19 hits Peru’s Indigenous people hard