“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.
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.
How can Yanomami heaven be reached if an image is captured and shared all over the internet?
The indigenous people face a dramatic impasse: if they denounce their genocide to the world, they run the risk of not finding happiness after death
Exclusive: Bolsonaro government cut Yanomami health monitoring after record infant malnourishment
Figures obtained by SUMAÚMA show the reduction in health monitoring started in the second year of the far-right administration, after officials learned that half of Yanomami young children were underweight.
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
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.
“Lula, we don’t want to cry because people die”
Women from the Rokoari community, in the Yanomami Indigenous Land, appeal to the president-elect to halt the humanitarian catastrophe caused by illegal mining
Exclusive: Bolsonaro government set to erase indigenous communities from 2022 Census
Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics lacks resources to survey three indigenous areas, which will impact government policies for a decade
A historical autopsy of a Yanomami murder
The recent killing of an indigenous woman began in 1973, when a road built by Brazil’s military dictatorship was carved through the forest
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.
