Eight years old, 12.5 kilos: the little girl who symbolized the Yanomami massacre

A dark hammock wraps around the tiny body of a Yanomami girl (indigenous Amazonian ethnicity), so thin that her ribs stand out. The photograph of this 8-year-old girl, who weighs only 12.5 kilos (the minimum normal weight for her age is 20 kilos), was taken in the village of Maimasi, in the state of Roraima, in the north of Brazil. the chronic problem of poor health care faced by indigenous people in the heart of the Amazon.