Bia and Alê: “We’re not going to let Bruno and Dom die”
Beatriz Matos and Alessandra Sampaio met to talk about living and fighting for life one year after the brutal murders of their husbands
Bruno’s exemplary achievements with indigenous communities must be respected
As the one-year mourning period comes to an end in Javari Valley villages, Beto Marubo fears Bruno Pereira's work will be undermined by Congress
“In mining camps, what’s between your legs isn’t yours—it has to make money”
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.
Narco-miners challenge government in Yanomami territory
In a single week, at least 14 people were murdered inside the indigenous territory, including a member of Brazil’s largest criminal organization – First Capital Command (PCC). In retaliation, the faction has sent out a message telling its members to target police and federal agents.
Violence against schools is an attack on society
We must learn from Brazil’s native peoples and their sense of community, so we can make coexistence part of the curriculum
Fugitive for 17 years: The astonishing story of the man who reported the murder of Dorothy Stang
Land reform activist Geraldo Magela de Almeida Filho was forced into hiding after being accused of a crime he did not commit. In a SUMAÚMA exclusive, he reveals how he adopted a new name and identity as a traveling salesman in the Amazon, before finally being vindicated in the courts
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 2: Listen to Brazil’s Quilombola and riverine peoples
What the Amazon’s traditional populations, agroecological workers and leaders of social movements want from the president-elect
“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.
