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In Venezuela, Colombian guerrillas recruit Indigenous youth

By Bram Ebus 20 de August de 202320 de September de 2023

Along border with Venezuela, Colombian guerrillas lure unemployed Indigenous youths into drug trade, extortion rackets and armed conflict.

Brazilian drug gang takes root in Peruvian Amazon

By Pamela Huerta and Ivan Brehaut 17 de August de 202320 de September de 2023

The notorious Brazilian gang Comando Vermelho has seized control of the cocaine trade in Peru’s Ucayali region.

Colombian drug runners turn to shamans for protection

By Bram Ebus and Andrés Cardona 15 de August de 202320 de September de 2023

Before embarking on a perilous trek through the jungle, drug couriers in Colombia turn to shamans for protection.

The poorest narcos in the drug-trafficking chain

By Pamela Huerta and Bram Ebus 10 de August de 202320 de September de 2023

The poorest narcos in the trafficking chain risk even their own children to deliver drugs to criminal organizations.

Armed groups threaten Indigenous lands in southern Venezuela

By María Ramírez Cabello 6 de August de 202320 de September de 2023

In Venezuela’s southern Amazon region, Pemón Indigenous communities are caught between encroaching armed groups and illegal gold miners.

The Day of Fire, three years later: over half of the forest burned in the Amazon has become pasture

By Bibiana Alcântara Garrido 4 de August de 202325 de September de 2023

In addition to the area targeted for livestock, nearly 40% of the forest affected by the 2019 arson is still unused and was burned ‘for the sake of burning.’

Dredges: Gold mining spurs crime & corruption on Brazil-Colombia border

By Bram Ebus and Rodrigo Pedroso 3 de August de 202320 de September de 2023

Miners dredging millions of dollars in gold from Brazil’s Puruê River devastate the environment and attract armed groups.

Deforestation in the Amazon: past, present and future

By Sibélia Zanon 21 de March de 202321 de March de 2023

According to a new study from RAISG, in just five years, the Amazon could lose almost half of what it lost in the past two decades.

‘The fight goes on’: four indigenous leaders from Amazonia outline their expectations for the next four years

By Emily Costa 9 de February de 202313 de March de 2023

In a conversations with InfoAmazonia, Maial Kaiapó, Samela Sateré-Mawé, Júnior Hekurari Yanomami and Alessandra Korap Munduruku spoke about the historically important establishment of the Ministry of Indigenous Peoples, and the sense of relief following the dismantling of environmental policies.

Brazil was responsible for 70% of the CO2e emissions from deforestation in Pan-Amazonia over the last 35 years

By Leandro Chaves 18 de November de 202221 de December de 2022

A MapBiomas study released at COP27 on changes in land use in threatened South American ecosystems found that expanding farming and cattle raising activities were drivers for the loss of Amazonian forests between 1985 and 2020.

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Most of the wood consumed in Brazil may come from illegal deforestation in the Amazon

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