The president-elect once helped slash deforestation rates in the Amazon rainforest. He says he wants to do it again.
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Your Monday Briefing: Seoul Mourns Halloween Crush Victims
Plus Russia halts Ukrainian grain shipments and Brazilians vote for their next president.
How Cannibalism Became a Top Issue in Brazil’s Election
An old claim by Brazil’s president that he would “eat an Indian” took mudslinging to a new level.
Your Monday Briefing: Indonesia’s Stadium Tragedy
Plus Brazil votes in national elections and China wrestles with Covid fatigue.
In Brazil, the Last Member of an Isolated Indigenous Tribe Dies
Known as the “Man of the Hole,” the last member of an Indigenous group was found dead this month, marking the first recorded disappearance of an isolated tribe in the country.
In the Amazon, a U.N. Agency Partners With Oil Companies
One of the world’s largest sustainable development agencies has worked with energy companies to quash opposition and keep oil flowing, even in sensitive areas.
Third Man Arrested in Amazon Slayings of Journalist and Activist
The police in Brazil said on Saturday that they had arrested another person connected to the deaths of Dom Phillips and Bruno Araújo Pereira, and said the men been shot to death.
British Journalist Dom Phillips’s Remains Identified, Brazil’s Police Say
The remains of a second person, believed to be Bruno Pereira, who disappeared with Mr. Phillips in the Amazon on June 5, were still being analyzed.
Man Confesses to Killing 2 Men Missing in the Amazon, Police Say
Dom Phillips, a freelance reporter for The Guardian, and Bruno Araújo Pereira, a Brazilian expert on Indigenous peoples, had been missing in the Amazon since June 5.
Authorities Find Belongings of Missing Journalist and Expert in Amazon
Search crews found clothes and other belongings of the two men who went missing in the Amazon last week. Authorities are also testing blood from a suspect’s boat and human remains found elsewhere.