Exclusive: Bolsonaro government knew gold miners were destroying Yanomami as early as 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.
Pro-mining mayor defies government and reality
The Amazonian municipality of Itaituba is a centre of illegal gold prospecting, which puts it firmly in the sights of the federal government's crackdown on polluting activity inside indigenous territory. The pro-mining mayor Valmir Climaco response has been to deny the existence of indigenous lands, despite hundreds of years of evidence to the contrary.
“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.
Yanomami Genocide spawns Brazil’s first humanitarian movement for reconstruction
After four years of destruction of the bonds of community and solidarity by the Bolsonaro government, the health collapse that has already killed 570 children under the age of five in the indigenous land unites Brazilians around a cause that is also a country
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
‘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
