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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 […]
In an operation in Bella vista Norte, Amambay department, the Paraguayan National Anti-Drug Secretariat (SENAD) destroyed more than 16 tons of marijuana. Agents found the drugs in a rural establishment of some 5 hectares that housed several narco-camps with marijuana crops, where they also seized 1.5 tons of the drug in the drying process.
A Rio de Janeiro police raid in Alemao favelas resulted in the death of at least 18 people on Thursday, according to the spokesperson for the state's military police.
Illegal businesses form an interlocking web in the Brazilian remote region where Dom Phillips and Bruno Pereira were killed, threatening Indigenous communities and local ecology
Two of the Amazon rainforest's staunchest advocates, Bruno Pereira and Dom Phillips, are believed to have been killed in one of its remotest corners.