Bolsonaro cracks down on illegal mining in Amazon amid global pressure - for now

Brazil government is determined to show the world a new, greener face after three years in which deforestation rates and global outrage explodedIn the four decades since he helped found the Garden of Gold, Fernando Viana has had a front row seat to the chaotic scramble for precious metals in the Brazilian Amazon.Cutthroat squabbles over the jungle mines sprinkled around this riverside outpost. Lead-riddled corpses dumped outside the rowdy wooden bordellos he once ran. Continue reading...