Narcotráfico
Pirates, trafficking and illegal mining: criminal life on an Amazon river
The Içá is the only river in the rainforest that crosses four countries, which makes it a sometimes violent meeting place for gangs competing to smuggle gold and cocaine
Amazon under siege: Drug traffickers control 72% of border areas
An investigation led by OjoPúblico in partnership with media partners SUMAÚMA, La Silla Vacía, and Código Vidrio found drug production and trafficking are present in 54 out of 75 border locations across the Amazon. The two most active criminal groups are Brazil’s Red Command and Colombia’s Los Comandos de la Frontera
Lessons for Democracy From the Brazilian Amazon
'The environment and its natural resources are at the heart of the discussion on the maintenance of democracy,' said Hugo Loss, an official in Brazil’s environmental protection agency and a former target of surveillance by the Bolsonaro administration
The reinvented life of the man who confessed to killing Chico Mendes
In Medicilândia, Darci Alves Pereira adopted a new name, got rich, started an Evangelical church, and tried to enter politics through Jair Bolsonaro’s party
Ecuador: illegal mining in the Amazon finances drug gangs
Gold exploration has lined the pockets of the organized crime groups terrorizing the country, and contaminated rivers with mercury
SUMAÚMA – the year in images
On the one-year anniversary of our Amazon-centred news community, our co-founder Jonathan Watts shares some of his favourite images from a year of enormous - and mostly positive change - that you dear readers helped to make possible
The identity of environmental offenders, the insects of the Amazon region and other stories
A selection of news stories about the rainforest, to be read in two minute
Amazon Summit: forest peoples prevent government backsliding
By bringing nearly 30,000 people to Belém, social movements and leaders of traditional populations demonstrated their power of organization and an awareness of the impacts of climate change. They plan to be stronger still by the time of COP-30 in 2025
Video: two women joined by the war for the Amazon
SUMAÚMA brought together Bruna e Alê, the widows of Bruno Pereira and Dom Phillips, to talk about life after losing their husbands in a brutal and still unpunished murder
SUMAÚMA brought together Bruna e Alê, the widows of Bruno Pereira and Dom Phillips, to talk about life after losing their husbands in a brutal and still unpunished murder