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Peru hails progress in Amazon war on drugs – so why is business booming?

In Vizcatán, the last redoubt of militarily active Maoist rebels Shining Path, the army is cracking down on cocaine traffickers

The Guardian - US

Venezuelan police investigate indigenous leader's murder

Venezuelan criminal investigators have launched inquiries into the murder of an indigenous leader, who was killed on June 30 in the country's southern Amazonas state, the police said on Tuesday.

Reuters

Bolsonaro’s ‘surrender of Amazon to crooks played role in murders of Phillips and Pereira’

Brazilian president’s dismantling of environmental safeguards partly to blame, says politician leading inquiry

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Pope appoints first cardinal from Amazon rainforest

When the Archbishop of the Brazilian city of Manaus Leonardo Steiner kneels before Pope Francis on August 27, the Brazilian clergyman will make history as the first Cardinal to come from the Amazon

The Independent UK

Amazon wild west: where drugs, fish and logging are big money but life is cheap

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

The Guardian - US

Killing, outrage … impunity: can the Amazon break its cycle of violence?

Before the deaths of Dom Phillips and Bruno Pereira, Chico Mendes’ murder in 1988 and Dorothy Stang’s assassination in 2005 shook Brazil

The Guardian - US

Brazil’s Amazon hosts a third of country’s most violent cities

The Brazilian Amazon is home to 13 of the country’s 30 most violent cities as drug trafficking is adding to environmental crimes that have traditionally plagued the region.

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British journalist Dom Phillips killed in the Amazon laid to rest in Brazil

‘Today, Dom will be cremated in the country he loved, his chosen home,’ his wife said

The Independent UK

Family bids farewell to British journalist murdered in the Amazon

The family of Dom Phillips on Sunday bid farewell to the British journalist, who was killed earlier this month along with Brazilian indigenous expert Bruno Pereira in the Amazon.

Reuters

‘Dom Phillips was natural storyteller – for us, he was always Uncle Dom’

Nieces of journalist killed in the Amazon pay tribute to their uncle, who sent frequent and funny emails about life in Brazil

The Guardian - US

New Colombian president pledges to protect rainforest

Gustavo Petro, Colombia’s first elected leftist president, will take office in August with ambitious proposals to halt the record-high deforestation rates in the Amazon

The Independent UK

Brazilian indigenous defender Pereira buried with traditional send-off

Bruno Pereira, the Brazilian indigenous defender killed this month while investigating threats to isolated tribes in the Amazon, was laid to rest Friday in his home state of Pernambuco in the country's northeast.

Reuters

Banks and UK supermarkets accused of backing deforestation in Brazil

By funding and stocking products from Brazilian meat giant JBS, firms have also supported land-grabbing, investigation claims

The Guardian - UK

Bruno Pereira buried in his home state after ceremony led by Indigenous tribes

Funeral held in Pernambuco of Indigenous expert who was killed in Amazon region with journalist Dom Phillips

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Indigenous and family mourn expert killed in the Amazon

Members of Brazilian Indigenous groups, friends and family members have gathered to mourn Bruno Pereira, an expert on Indigenous peoples who was killed with a British journalist during a trip to the heart of the Amazon rainforest

The Guardian - UK

Dom Phillips obituary

Brazil-based UK journalist and author who championed the role of Indigenous people in saving the Amazon

AFP

In Amazon region hit by double murder, poverty fuels violence

Atalaia do Norte (Brazil) (AFP) - A short walk from the spot where British journalist Dom Phillips and Brazilian Indigenous expert Bruno Pereira set out for their final journey, people sit in the blistering sun breaking rocks into pieces with hammers.

Reuters

Ecuador loses control of Amazon city in anti-government protests

Ecuador's government is trying to retake control of Puyo, a city in the country's Amazon region, after violent clashes and the burning of a police station by demonstrations during nationwide protests against the economic policies of President Guillermo Lasso.

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Dom Phillips: British journalist killed in Amazon was ‘collateral damage’ in drunken ambush, Brazil’s vice-president says

Three fishermen have been arrested in relation to the deaths

Reuters

Brazilian police reconstruct murder of British journalist and indigenous expert

A fisherman who has confessed to participating in the murder of British journalist Dom Phillips and Brazilian indigenous expert Bruno Pereira has taken part in a police reconstruction of the crime.

Evening Standard

Dom Phillips: Boat used by murdered British journalist and indigenous expert found sunk with sandbags

The speedboat used by murdered British journalist Dom Phillips to travel in the Amazon rainforest has been found by police underwater weighed down with six sandbags.

The Guardian - UK

Police recover boat used by Dom Phillips and Bruno Pereira

Boat found near bank of Itaquaí River in Brazilian state of Amazonas to be sent for forensic examination, police say

Reuters

Brazilian authorities find boat of slain British journalist, indigenous expert

The boat used by killed British journalist Dom Phillips and Brazilian indigenous expert Bruno Pereira to travel Brazil's Amazon was found on Sunday evening, authorities said in a press statement.

The Independent UK

Brazilian police identify five more suspects in killings of Dom Phillips and Bruno Pereira

Bodies were found in a remote part of the Amazon, after a 1hr 40min journey by boat and almost 3km by foot

Reuters

Brazil police identify five more suspects in murder of British journalist

Brazilian federal police on Sunday said that five more suspects helped hide the bodies of British journalist Dom Phillips and indigenous expert Bruno Pereira, after having already arrested three men for their murder in the Amazon rainforest.

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