“In the mining camps, what you have between your legs isn’t yours—it has to make money”
SUMAÚMA publica, com exclusividade, o relato da venezuelana Patri, que trabalhou como prostituta em garimpos na Terra Indígena Yanomami. Suas memórias escancaram as vozes das mulheres que se equilibram na linha fina entre a sobrevivência e a brutalidade
Narco-miners challenge government in Yanomami territory
In a single week, at least 14 people were murdered inside the indigenous territory, including a member of Brazil’s largest criminal organization – First Capital Command (PCC). In retaliation, the faction has sent out a message telling its members to target police and federal agents.
The Munduruku woman indigenizing the world
Threatened with death in Brazil, Alessandra Korap is one of six activists from around the world whose work is recognized this Monday by the prestigious Goldman Prize for Environmentalism
Tracing gold, healing forests and other Amazon news
A two-minute round-up of the latest Amazon news
The ruined lives of the doctors who saved the Yanomami
When they figured out that taking care of Indigenous health means taking care of the health of the forest, by impeding illegal mining, Deise Alves and Cláudio Esteves became the targets of political scheming, with bureaucracy serving as a weapon
‘Do you think the government controls this kind of people?’
Competing for Bolsonaro’s supporters in the Amazon, former communist Aldo Rebelo is touring the north of the country arguing in favor of a project for Brazil that focuses on the military and the agribusiness sector
Right wing and agribusiness flock to former communist in Altamira
Aldo Rebelo, a former ally of Workers’ Party presidents Lula and Dilma Rousseff, now mixes with Bolsonaro supporters and landgrabbers. He is promoting an agricultural-military political agenda in one of the epicenters of the destruction of the Amazon forest
UK Company Mining in Amazon without land agency consent
Serabi Gold is operating an Amazonian mine before completing a consent process with indigenous communities and without the approval of the land agency Incra, which has designated the plot for the sustainable settlement Terra Nossa
Bolsa Família must change if it is not to aggravate Yanomami hunger
The Lula government wants to expand registration of the social welfare program in indigenous lands, but this alone will not be enough. The system of cash transfers must be adapted to the realities of different indigenous peoples. Without this, it could cause more misery and violence.
Nature is climate: We forget that at our peril
The disaster in São Paulo reminds us that we must reinforce the Amazon rainforest and other natural pillars that ‘hold up the sky'
