As Brazil has become a big consumer and exporter of cocaine, organised crime has spread across the Amazon
Save time by listening to our audio articles as you multitaskNow this conflict has reached even the most hidden areas of the Amazon, as the murders earlier this month of Bruno Pereira, an adviser to indigenous tribes, and Dom Phillips, a British journalist, make clear.
The pair are far from the first defenders of the forest to die violently. In 1988 the murder of Chico Mendes, the leader of a rubber-tappers’ union in Acre, to the south of the Javari, caused international outrage. His killers were the sons of a rancher who wanted the union’s land. Mendes’s death contributed to far-reaching changes of policy in Brazil, coinciding with the country’s democratic constitution of 1988.
Over the past decade environmental progress has reversed, however, owing both to pressure from the farmers’ lobby and budget cuts. The fate of Messrs Pereira and Phillips highlights new threats. . The Javari joins the Amazon where Brazil intersects with Peru and Colombia. It has become a drug route. Environmentalists say that narcotraffickers have diversified into environmental crimes, such as smuggling ill-gotten timber and endangered animals.
The most insidious threat comes from Jair Bolsonaro, Brazil’s president since 2019. He is contemptuous of environmentalism and of indigenous reserves, which he sees as unfairly blocking economic development . A former army officer, he embodies the military’s nationalist view of the Amazon: that it must be settled if Brazil is to secure its sovereignty over it.
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