Brazil is at risk of losing control over its Amazon rainforest region to organized crime and traffickers, who use the region to smuggle illegal drugs, a Brazilian Supreme Court judge warned.
The deaths of journalist Dom Phillips and Indigenous rights defender Bruno Pereira in June this year exposed an interlocking web of crime involving drug trafficking, money laundering, and illegal fishing deep in the Brazilian Amazon. This sprawling criminal network stretches throughout the rainforest and beyond, and is responsible for soaring deforestation rates and increasing violence […]
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