Brazilian police investigating the disappearance of a British journalist and an Indigenous expert in the Amazon rainforest are focusing on people involved in illegal fishing and poaching from Indigenous lands.
Witnesses said they last saw Dom Phillips — a freelance journalist who has written for the Guardian and the Washington Post — on Sunday.
Brazilian Justice Minister Anderson Torres was due to meet a British diplomat on Thursday on the sidelines of the Summit of the Americas in Los Angeles to discuss the case, a member of the Brazilian delegation told Reuters. In 2019, Maxciel Pereira — who worked with Funai to shut down illegal fishing in the Javari Valley — was shot dead in Tabatinga.
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