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
‘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?
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
To deny a genocide is to sow the seeds of the next
Faced with the enormous repercussions of the most recent crisis suffered by the Yanomami population, part of the legal community, belatedly and shamefacedly, has now begun to babble: well, now, maybe... As if the signs, and even proof, of the ongoing genocide had not already been offered by indigenous people for many years.
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.
How did 570 indigenous children die from the negligence of the Bolsonaro government?
The careful steps journalism must take to avoid committing acts of violence while denouncing violence.
‘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
Gold and Beef: Ronaldo’s recipe for disaster
Former Brazil striker claims he ate gold leaf steak with current members of the national team to inspire people, but his choice could hardly have been worse
Census takers under fire over neglect of indigenous groups
Institute of Geography and Statistics is given five days to explain why no helicopters have been procured to survey three remote areas, risking the omission of 15,000 people
