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The press has limited access to several areas dominated by criminal activity, including illegal mining, landgrabbing and drug trafficking.
Dom Phillips, who has been a regular contributor to the British newspaper the Guardian, and Bruno Araújo Pereira were last seen early Sunday.
Brazilian police have opened a criminal probe and interviewed at least four witnesses believed to be among the last to have seen a British journalist and an Indigenous expert who went missing in a remote and lawless part of the Amazon jungle on Sunday.