Explore this fascinating (and troubling) article by InfoAmazonia 'Welcome to the Amazon Underworld'. Amazon Underworld is a joint investigation of InfoAmazonia (Brazil), Armando.Info (Venezuela) @LiganoSilencio (Colombia).

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Brazil's largest crime group, PCC, preys on vulnerable migrants, recruits them to be put to work in their illicit economies.

About 40% of their members in Roraima are now of Venezuelan origin.

New story by Emily Costa, Mariana Rios and Rodrigo Chagas👇

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📢 Thrilled to announce the publication of my article 'The Entanglements between Data Journalism, Collaboration, and Business Models' in the Digital Journalism! It's open access. 🔗Read it here: doi.org/10.1080/216708… #DataJournalism #DDJ #DigitalJournalism #AcademicTwitter

Phenomenal reporting by Bram Ebus

‘You have to sacrifice your life’: the drug runners of Colombia’s rainforests theguardian.com/global-develop…

In a remote corner of Colombia, where there is a scant government presence and few jobs, people hire themselves out to haul heavy loads of marijuana through the jungle.

Our Amazon Underworld story w/ Andrés Cardona and Alex Rufino for The Guardian

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What is the relationship between drug trafficking, shamanism and cross-border organized crime?

Find out tomorrow Amazon Underworld 🐍👀

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Peru's coca boom: The production of coca crops increased dramatically in Peru, with the Amazon borderlands experiencing a particularly steep rise.

By Pamela Huerta Bustamante 🍃🇵🇪

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Guided by spiritual protection, inhabitants of the Amazon rainforest embark on a daring journey, transporting packages that exceed 50kgs of marijuana across the rugged Colombian jungle border into Brazil.

Today's story 👇🐍🇧🇷🇨🇴

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#AmazonUnderworld maps the presence of armed groups across Amazonian borders and presents a series of in-depth reports on the region’s organized criminal operations.

A project by Armando.Info, La Liga Contra el Silencio, InfoAmazonia & Rainforest Investigations Network (RIN).

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2.🔍 In a cross-border investigation revealing power dynamics in the world's largest rainforest, 37 reporters from InfoAmazonia, La Liga Contra el Silencio & Armando.Info delved into criminal ecosystems using field research, data, & satellite imagery.

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🧵📊 1. NEW! This week, GIJN's #ddj highlights stories on the different underworld groups operating in the #Amazon ’s border areas, the Myanmar junta’s accelerating airstrike campaign, the global impact of violence from US gun exports, and many more. ⬇️

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🌳🪓Why should regional security be on the agenda of the #DialogosAmazonicos / OTCA / ACTO?

Amazon Underworld spoke to Inside Story about escalating violence and crime in the Amazon.

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🔴👉🏻Country borders closed during the pandemic, yet criminal enterprises know no international frontiers and have intensified their control while governments limited their actions in the Amazon.

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A team of 37 journalists ventured into rarely explored corners of the Amazon to understand how criminals take advantage of its countless rivers and clandestine airstrips to transport drugs and gold.

Check out #AmazonUnderworld 🌳 first findings!
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5/ What did we find on the Puruê River in the Brazilian Amazon?

Read our new story by Rodrigo Pedroso and me. With fantastic photos and videos by Andrés Cardona & Alex Rufino

infoamazonia.org/en/2023/08/03/… InfoAmazonia Brasil La Liga Contra el Silencio Armando.Info Pulitzer Center Rainforest Investigations Network (RIN)

1/ Earlier this year, a group of armed men, some wearing balaclavas and wielding large weaponry, intimidated us on the riverbank of a remote river deep in the Brazilian Amazon while conducting research on crime and the environment.

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#AmazonUnderworld maps the presence of armed groups in the Amazon and presents a series of in-depth reports on their drugs, logging, and gold mining operations.

A project by Armando.Info, La Liga Contra el Silencio, InfoAmazonia & Rainforest Investigations Network (RIN).

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Discover the dynamics of crime that operate in the Amazon rainforest.

Amazon Underworld is a joint effort from Pulitzer Center RIN, La Liga Contra el Silencio, InfoAmazonia & Armando.Info

For 15 months, we've been running around in the Amazon to investigate exacerbating crime dynamics🐍

Interested in learning what we found?

Stay tuned for our launch this Thursday and follow us Amazon Underworld

This is a project by La Liga Contra el Silencio, InfoAmazonia, and Armando.Info