Brazilian police officers have swarmed into a town in the Amazon they say is the headquarters for illegal logging operations.
They’ve been targeting loggers who sell wood for construction in Brazil, and for export to the United States.
Aljazeera’s Gabriel Elizondo visited the town of Tailandia deep in the heart of the Amazon rainforest.
Will the completion of a project to pave a road through the Amazon rainforest result in ecological disaster? People & Power report from Brazil.
Will the completion of a project to pave a road through the Amazon rainforest result in ecological disaster? People & Power report from Brazil.
Brazil’s world famous Carnival has kicked off, with Rio De Janeiro hosting the first street parties.
But the scenes of dancers in glittering costumes winding their way through Rio, masks huge business interests.
Gabriel Elizondo follows the money trail.
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Al Jazeera gained exclusive access to a jail in Abaetetuba, in northern Brazil, where a 15-year-old girl was forced to share a cell with 20 men and repeatedly raped over a period of 25 days.Al Jazeera’s Gabriel Alizondo reports with a hidden camera from the scene.