A luta quilombola pelo direito de (r)existir: violação do direito fundamental à saúde dos povos quilombolas durante a pandemia de covid-19

Abstract

The covid-19 pandemic has aggravated some historical vulnerabilities of traditional quilombola peoples, requiring more effective action by the State to ensure the right to health and life of this population. The main objective of this work is to analyze how the management of public policies of the Federal Government impacted the health of quilombola peoples in the covid-19 pandemic. A brief historical analysis is made of how these traditional communities are crossed by social inequalities that stem from almost four centuries of state persecution. It seeks to identify how the dismantling of quilombola public policies interfered in the realization of the fundamental right to health of these peoples during the covid-19 pandemic, having as main parameter of analysis the guarantee of the existential minimum. Finally, it is analyzed how ADPF nº 742/2020 became a historic landmark in the struggle for the realization of fundamental rights of quilombola peoples. The methodology used was qualitative research, of the bibliographic and documentary type.