‘Everybody has mercury poisoning—children, old people, pregnant women.’
This is life in Katõ Village, in the Munduruku Indigenous Territory, one of the lands hardest hit by illegal mining. If such mercury contamination were detected in a wealthy neighborhood in an urban area of Brazil, how would the State and the press react?
A historical autopsy of a Yanomami murder
The recent killing of an indigenous woman began in 1973, when a road built by Brazil’s military dictatorship was carved through the forest
Barbe-coup in Bolsonaroland
Frontline report from a churrasco protest inside the Bolsonarist hotbed of Altamira, where supporters want the army to overturn the election result
Vale’s railway
to oblivion
A visit to the Awa Guajá, where people have died from sadness as well as guns since their land became a freight line for the world's biggest iron-ore mine
Munduruku mothers fear breast milk is tainted with mercury
New study points to illegal mining as the source of high levels of contamination in the blood of Indigenous people in the Middle Tapajós region of the Amazon
Brazil enters election season with surge of Amazon fires
In the first 10 days of September, there were four days with more fire hotspots than the infamous 'day of fire' in 2019
More than two billion trees killed in four years. The Amazon legacy of the ‘President of Death’
The death toll of Bolsonaro’s term must also include a holocaust of non-human life
Murder, violence and threats haunt contested indigenous land
The pain of the leader Gamella before the multiplying deaths in the last months expresses the horror amidst indigenous territories. In September, there has been at least seven murders and one suicide
‘Why do the miners screw the vaginas of Yanomami women?’
Deliberate negligence by the Bolsonaro administration has left Brazil’s largest Indigenous territory vulnerable to invasion by twenty thousand illegal miners who are accused of raping women and the land.
