Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro is facing criticism after what Indigenous leaders and the editors of major media outlets are calling an inadequate response to the disappearance of Dom Phillips and Bruno Pereira.
British journalist Dom Phillips and Indigenous affairs expert Bruno Araujo Pereira are seen on a sign presented by employees of the National Indigenous Foundation, FUNAI, during a vigil in Brazil.Brazilian authorities searching in a remote region of the Amazon for two missing men have come under fire for their handling of the operation.
The Guardian and Washington Post wrote a letter on Thursday to Mr Bolsonaro and Brazil’s defence and foreign ministers, pleading for greater resources to be invested into the search. It received more than 20 signatures from the editors of major international and Brazilian media outlets and press freedom organisations.
Mr Phillips has been a strong critic against the destruction of the Amazon rainforest, singling out what he says has been inadequate government action to prevent it. "He was like a father to me," a 31-year-old Indigenous leader who led the search for him just hours after his disappearance told The Guardian.Mr Pereira was sacked from his role at FUNAI when Mr Bolsonaro took power in 2019. He was removed from his position shortly after he and his team helped make one of the biggest illegal mines in the Amazon region inoperable.
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