Brazilian Government ‘Absent’ From Search For Missing Journalist, Indigenous Groups Say
"Indigenous and environmental groups have asserted that the meager search for Phillips and Pereira cannot be separated from the cavalier approach Bolsonaro has taken toward the Amazon Rainforest and its Indigenous populations. Bolsonaro has closely allied himself with wildcat miners, illegal loggers and other illicit interests seeking to exploit the forest, and attempted to tear down what little infrastructure existed to keep Brazil’s most remote environmental regions from descending into lawlessness.
Since taking office in 2019, the right-wing president has relaxed environmental enforcement laws and fines as part of a broader effort to promote economic development in the Amazon region. That approach has opened the forest and Indigenous lands to illegal mining, fishing, logging and other exploitative interests, generated record levels of deforestation and promoted numerous attacks on Indigenous communities.
It has created, Indigenous groups say, a culture of impunity within remote regions like the Vale do Javari and resulted in what tribal leaders have called a genocidal campaign against them."
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