drugs, corruption and environmental devastation in the Amazon.
As publisher and editor of Jornal Pessoal in the northern state of Pará, Pinto reports from the lawless and isolated Amazon region of Brazil, one of the most dangerous beats in Latin America. He has reported on drug trafficking, environmental devastation, and political and corporate corruption. In return, he has been threatened and subjected to a wave of spurious lawsuits. A powerful local media owner, also a local politician, attacked Pinto in a restaurant in January, beating and kicking him. The assailant’s bodyguards provided cover during the assault. Writing columns and directing coverage in his small bimonthly paper, Pinto has challenged the self-dealing and domination of a prominent media company. In retaliation, the company’s principals have unleashed a barrage of legal complaints. Judges, politicians, and business owners have also filed criminal and civil complaints against Pinto, who has exposed illegal corporate appropriation of timber-rich land, as well as corruption involving land titles.
- The complaint of Survival International, an organization aimed at the defense of tribal peoples and the protection of their rights. The community of uncontacted Amazon Indians would be at risk of extinction two to several factors, including the invasion of drug traffickers and illegal loggers. These have attacked a government outpost in charge of protecting the territory of the indigenous people, located near the river Xinane in the Brazilian state of Acre, on the border with Peru.
In the Brazilian Amazon uncontacted tribes live more than in any other region of the world and, according to data from FUNAI (the government's Indian affairs department), the isolated groups would be at least 77. Their decision not to establish contacts with other tribes and outside is almost certainly the result of the disastrous repetition of previous reports and the invasion and destruction of their forest.
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