Why is Brazil pushing out illegal miners from its Yanomami territory?

In January this year, Lula’s government launched a crackdown on illegal mines located across the Portugal-sized Yanomami region. So far, around 80 per cent of the more than 20,000 miners that invaded the territory have been evicted.

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