Indigenous activists have been searching for the missing pair since just hours after they vanished, with support from armed members of the military police
, appears to be gradually responding to a cacophony of criticism, in Brazil and around the world, for its sluggish response to the emergency.
“I’ve got 300 men in the area, two aircraft, 20 vessels. We’ve already spent more than R$0.5M . Just to show thatBut critics see such efforts as too little, far too late. And Indigenous activists, who have been searching for Phillips and Pereira since just a few hours after they vanished, voiced disgust atthat the pair had themselves to blame for embarking on such an ill-advised “adventure”.
As the coronavirus catastrophe swept Brazil, Phillips was also reporting on another calamity that has accelerated since Bolsonaro’s shock 2018 election: As he retraced his friend’s final footsteps to the spot where the missing men were last seen, Laet spoke of the “enchantment” they shared for the original inhabitants of Brazil’s rainforests and Phillips’s belief that Indigenous communities needed empowering by people such as Pereira so they could repel the growing assault on their lands. “Dom was absolutely convinced of this.”
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