“There's no shadow of a doubt” that organized crime in the region has increased in recent years, he said.
Organized crime gangs now operating in a third of cities in Brazil's Amazon, report finds
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Pereira told The Associated Press in an off-the-record conversation in November that he was waiting for the end of the Jair Bolsonaro presidency to return to the Indigenous agency and meanwhile would work with an Indigenous people's association.
Indigenous and family mourn expert killed in the Amazon
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