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
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
To cleanse ourselves of Bolsonaro, we must fight like a forest
The defeat of Brazil’s fascist president represents a window of possibility. To turn it into a horizon of hope, we must act not against Bolsonarism, but for a radical relationship with life
Message to Lula 1: Listen to Brazil’s indigenous peoples
What do the peoples of the Amazon rainforest and other biomes want from the president-elect? These communities have demands that cannot wait.
Marina Silva: “We don’t have the right to be stupid”
In an exclusive interview with SUMAÚMA, the Amazon born politician, elected as a congresswoman for the state of São Paulo on October 2, explains why, after a 14-year political separation from Lula, she decided to become one of his most important supporters, and to join a broad political alliance hoping to defeat Jair Bolsonaro next Sunday
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
Indigenous resistance: Chirley Pankará launches candidacy in the land of the bandeirantes
Daughter of the Pankará people seeks spot in state assembly, which has long history of marginalizing her people
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
‘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.
