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Flooded homes, food insecurity, restricted access to health care, and no prospects for the future—this is the undignified situation for people who defend the Amazon from powerful enemies while enduring death threats and receiving insufficient protection from official programs
In shamans’ dreams, the forest is crying
Morzaniel Ɨramari, the first Yanomami filmmaker, will shortly release 'Mãri hi: The Tree of Dream', a portrait of how messages from the forest reach the shamans of a people whose lives have been jeopardized by mining activities over the last ten years
Exclusive: Bolsonaro government knew of Yanomami crisis in 2020
A document sent to the Ministry of Health reported violence, illness, drugs and alcohol in the village of Kayanaú. The government failed to respond.
“Our lives are over”: The Yanomami villages devastated by mining
Residents of three regions invaded by criminal gold prospectors reveal how their communities have been destroyed by contamination, violence and prostitution. Their accounts highlight the disruption caused by the state's failure of care.
The struggle to retake Yanomami territory from criminal control
After four years of malign negligence by the Bolsonaro government, the territory is experiencing a continual removal of dead, or extremely sick, Indigenous people, and a still uncertain plan to expel thousands of illegal, heavily armed, miners
Exclusive: Bolsonaro government cut Yanomami health monitoring after record infant malnourishment
Figures obtained by SUMAÚMA show the reduction in health monitoring started in the second year of the far-right administration, after officials learned that half of Yanomami young children were underweight.
Government declares emergency in Yanomami territory
President Lula visits Roraima after dispatching taskforce to assess health crisis caused by illegal miners. Sumaúma reveals 570 preventable infants deaths under Bolsonaro.
‘We are not even able to count the bodies’
Figures obtained by SUMAÚMA show that during Jair Bolsonaro’s far-right government, the number of children under 5 years old who died from preventable causes increased 29% in Yanomami territory: 569 young indigenous children died in the last 4 years from diseases that are treatable
Police probe links between Amazon destroyers and insurrectionists
President Lula and Minister of Justice suggest agribusinesses may have funded the insurrection. In testimonies to police, arrested coup-mongers reveal they received money from Bolsonaro supporters in Pará, Rondônia and Mato Grosso
To understand why coup-mongers are afraid of Lula 3, look at the Amazon
In the wake of the rampage by Bolsonaro supporters in Brasilia, SUMAÚMA examines why the new government's focus on the rainforest and other biomes has spurred a violent and illegal backlash
