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Today, Explained

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Today, Explained

Vox

Daily News, Politics, News

4.49.5K Ratings

🗓️ 7 August 2019

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

What started as a push to increase mining in the rainforest led to a murder. Ernesto Londoño, Brazil bureau chief for The New York Times, explains how President Jair Bolsonaro is speeding the destruction of the Amazon. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:27.2

I met in Estolendonio that Brazil bureau chief for the New York Times.

0:32.0

Periodically we get reports here about tension or threats against indigenous people in remote villages.

0:40.8

But one weekend in late July we started hearing rumbling.

0:44.0

Said soon made us think that we were hearing was no ordinary incident.

0:51.0

Alamaker and then some local officials started publishing these frantic voice messages

0:56.6

recorded by indigenous people who were reporting a life and death situation.

1:09.7

They were saying that in recent days there had been a massive invasion of miners that went

1:16.1

into a protected indigenous territory in northern Brazil.

1:20.9

They said the men were armed.

1:22.4

They said that some were wearing military uniforms and they said that at least one of

1:27.2

the indigenous chiefs of the village, Amida, Waiapi had been stabbed to death and that

1:32.3

his body had been thrown in a river.

1:46.9

The sense of urgency in some of these messages was unmistakable.

1:51.7

The indigenous people were essentially warning that there was going to be a blood bath

1:55.7

unless the state intervened and they pleaded with their local representatives,

2:01.5

with their federal lawmakers to send help and send help quickly.

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