Brazil’s ecosystem of crime in the Amazon (commentary)

Mongabay
Mar 21, 2022, 8:30 pm334 pts
It’s a long way from Kyiv to Itaituba, but Brazil’s busy wildcat gold prospectors don’t need a map. The war on Ukraine has sent international gold prices soaring and word in the Amazon basin is spreading faster than claim-staker’s quicksilver. This city in the eastern Amazonian state of Pará is a…

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