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Deep in the Amazon, a Lopsided Battle for Its Riches

Members of the indigenous Munduruku tribe cross protected land in Brazil that was destroyed by illegal gold mining, deep in the Amazon rainforest, March 31, 2018. Brazil’s new far-right president, Jair Bolsonaro, wants to scale back protections for the Amazon rainforest and its indigenous communities. “Where there is indigenous land,” Bolsonaro has said, “there is wealth underneath it.” (Meridith Kohut/The New York Times).