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Monday briefing: How the work of Dom Phillips and Bruno Pereira carries on, three years after their killing

In today’s newsletter: A new Guardian podcast, Missing in the Amazon, explores the legacy of our colleagues, the fight to protect the rainforest, and the ongoing search for justice

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How a Brazilian prison gang became an international criminal leviathan

The PCC – First Capital Command – arose in the country’s notoriously brutal penitentiaries 30 years ago but now controls a billion-dollar drug trade supplying much of Europe’s cocaine

The Guardian - US

‘It’s dangerous work’: new generation of Indigenous activists battle to save the Amazon

Campaigners in Brazil use drones to document work of self-defence teams trying to stop environmental destruction caused by illegal mining

The Guardian - UK

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‘It’s been a pretty weird adventure’: Ritchie, the unlikely British pop star beloved by Brazil

Richard Court barely spoke Portuguese when he moved to Brazil. Forty years after his smash first single, he’s celebrated as one of the country’s most successful singers

The Guardian - US

Jump in child deaths reveals impact of industrialisation on Amazon’s Indigenous peoples

As an economic boom’s gains pass them by, people in unprotected land have been hit by hunger and disease, with infant mortality rates seven times higher than the rest of Brazil

The Guardian - UK

‘You’re looking to die’: the Brazil river where illegal fishing threatens lives

Poaching of endangered species flourishes despite widespread outcry – but sustainable fishing could end the violence engulfing the trade

The Guardian - US

Friday briefing: A year after their murder, the vital work of Bruno Pereira and Dom Phillips carries on

In today’s newsletter: A new reporting project seeks to continue the efforts of Bruno Pereira and Dom Phillips to protect the Amazon

The Guardian - UK

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Brazilian Amazon at risk of being taken over by mafia, ex-police chief warns

Alexandre Saraiva gives alert on organised crime in region ahead of anniversary of killings of Dom Phillips and Bruno Pereira

The Guardian - US

Bruno Pereira and Dom Phillips were killed in the Amazon: A year later their Indigenous allies risk death to carry on the work

The Brazilian Amazon and its Indigenous people remain under siege but a patrol group the killed activist helped form is fighting back

The Guardian - UK

‘Bolsonaro’s to blame’: Indigenous rights champion on crisis in Brazil

The veteran explorer Sydney Possuelo says the far-right president has promoted a ‘deliberate policy’ of violence and land invasions

The Guardian - US

Amazon forest guardians fulfil Bruno Pereira’s mission of Indigenous exchange

Pereira, who was murdered alongside British journalist Dom Phillips, planned to lead an Indigenous delegation 2,500km across Brazil to learn from veteran fellow defenders

The Guardian - US

How the final journey of Dom Phillips and Bruno Pereira ended in tragedy

The journalist and Indigenous expert travelled upstream in Brazil’s far western Amazon region, a trip from which they did not return alive

The Guardian - US

Indigenous groups scour forests and rivers for Dom Phillips and Bruno Pereira

Indigenous activists have been searching for the missing pair since just hours after they vanished, with support from armed members of the military police

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