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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Tom Phillips in the Sararé Indigenous territory

‘It’s total devastation’: inside the Amazonian war against illegal gold mining

The jerry-built bordello at the foot of Vila Cururu, an illegal gold-mining settlement at the heart of Brazil’s most desecrated Indigenous territory, was a hive of depravity until just a few weeks ago.

Inebriated prospectors huddled around wooden tables, swigging beer and Scotch whisky, and ogling pole-dancing sex workers before going with them to shacks behind the brothel.

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