Carnival 2024: Salgueiro shows the pain and the beauty of being Yanomami
For leader and shaman Davi Kopenawa, the parade theme brought to Rio's Sambadrome in the middle of the night on February 12 symbolizes an alliance between Indigenous and Black people to demand 'respect'
Understanding the Yanomami in Salgueiro’s samba school parade
A glossary to introduce our readers to the extraordinary world of a people who are fighting genocide while holding up the sky
In the name of the dead
The Lula administration has failed to save Yanomami lives
‘Amateur management’ behind failure that has cost 308 Yanomami lives
How the Brazilian government spent $200 million and mobilized nearly 2,000 healthcare workers, yet wasted a year in addressing the healthcare crisis in the Indigenous land
Lula government efforts with Yanomami called ‘more propaganda than effective action’
Veteran aid worker Doctor Cláudio Esteves, who succeeded in reducing malaria in the 1990s, decries today’s humanitarian crisis and illegal mining in Yanomami territory despite a year of government operations to eradicate the problems
“Our children are being born rotten. Are these diseases doing that to them?”
Illegal miners have returned to Yanomami territory and so have the consequences. At a gathering of Yanomami women, participants discuss healthcare failures. There has been no screening for sexually transmitted diseases since the mining invasion and 38.1% of pregnant women have no access to prenatal care
Gold mining profiteers take no risks and don’t muddy themselves
Mining operations are sponsored by filthy-rich criminal organizations, and the technological transformations that boost productivity are accelerating deforestation and the destruction of ways of life
“Our lives are over”: The Yanomami villages devastated by mining
Residents of three regions invaded by criminal gold prospectors reveal how their communities have been destroyed by contamination, violence and prostitution. Their accounts highlight the disruption caused by the state's failure of care.
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
‘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
