Guilherme Pimentel Tenorio receives the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine in the Sustainable Development Reserve of Tupe in the Negro river banks in Manaus, Brazil REUTERS/Bruno Kelly
As covid-19 vaccines begin to arrive in the Andean highlands in Colombia, Maria Pito, a leader of the Nasa people, is reluctant to receive one. 鈥淎s a nurse, I will be required by the clinic where I work to be vaccinated but if I had the choice, I would not take it and would continue to rely on traditional medicine,鈥 she says. 鈥淚 and many others don鈥檛 trust this untransparent government.鈥
Her distrust echoes the…
