Land grab in Amazon jungle threatens dispossession, violence and murder

President Temer is courting the mining companies and their political backers by breaking into pristine rainforestOn 23 August it emerged that the president of Brazil, Michel Temer, had issued a decree abolishing the protected status of an immense area of the Amazon forest. The area is in the north of the country, beyond the Amazon river, going up to the frontiers with French Guiana and Suriname (formerly Dutch Guiana). The estimated size is 4.5 million hectares, the size of Denmark or Switzerlan