• ‘You are killing us’: Mariana survivors face ill health, lost culture and a long wait for justice

    ‘You are killing us’: Mariana survivors face ill health, lost culture and a long wait for justice
    When a dam burst eight years ago in a Brazilian mining town, the toxic mud swept downriver, crushing all before it. Affected communities are still fighting in the courts – and mourning a way of life that has disappeared for everMarino D’Ângelo Júnior regularly takes antidepressants and medication to help him sleep. A former resident of Paracatu de Baixo, a district of the city of Mariana in the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais, the 54-year-old says he has lost his sense o

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