‘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
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
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
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
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
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
‘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.
