Justice for the Yanomami people
Our wish is that the community of SUMAÚMA readers find ways to demand the trial of Jair Bolsonaro and his ministers
How can Yanomami heaven be reached if an image is captured and shared all over the internet?
The indigenous people face a dramatic impasse: if they denounce their genocide to the world, they run the risk of not finding happiness after death
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
‘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?
Opinião
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The new government needs to deal with the crimes of Belo Monte
Researchers of the Amazon region call for urgent alleviation of the socio-environmental impacts on the so-called Big Bend of the Xingu and ask that the families affected by the Belo Monte dam be treated decently
Fashion designer takes style back to forest roots
The Amazonian designer Sioduhi invited SUMAÚMA into his ateliers, in São Paulo and Rio Branco, to describe his journey from the Upper Rio Negro to the catwalks of São Paulo, and explain why he is returning to his ancestral origins
‘I’m here and I’m wearing ManioQueen!’ Amazonian fashion lands in Davos
SUMAÚMA podcaster and creator of Pavulagem, the riverside dweller Maickson Serrão is taking part in the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland wearing the hottest styles of Amazon forest
Viviário
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Joaquim Melo: a discreet “friend of the lights”
'In this era of the deliberate destruction of nature, rampant consumerism, unhealthy narcissism and the metaverse (or should it be murder-verse?), Joaquim was committed to forming readers and, while hardly rich, donated books to students and readers from humble backgrounds, something I witnessed on several occasions. He gave all of himself that he could, in a gesture of profound generosity, with affection was paramount'
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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
