Beatriz Matos and Alessandra Sampaio met to talk about living and fighting for life one year after the brutal murders of their husbands

SUMAÚMA publishes an exclusive story of a Venezuelan woman who came to Brazil at the age of twenty-seven after experiencing continuous violence in her home country. She spent time in 2021 and 2022 as a prostitute in five mining encampments in the Yanomami Indigenous Territory. Her memories and drawings, recorded in small notebooks, give voice to the stories of many women who balance the thin line between money and brutality.

Understanding and working to block this destructive project is also a responsibility of the SUMAÚMA community

The recent killing of an indigenous woman began in 1973, when a road built by Brazil’s military dictatorship was carved through the 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

What do the peoples of the Amazon rainforest and other biomes want from the president-elect? These communities have demands that cannot wait.

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

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

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.