In the lead-up to the Brazilian presidential runoff on Sunday, the stakes for the Amazon rainforest and its communities are incredibly high. Our Latin America correspondent, Tom Phillips, travels to Roraima, the country’s northernmost state, to engage with voters, preachers, and politicians in a region that strongly supported Flávio Bolsonaro in the first round of elections.
The Stakes for the Amazon
The residents of Roraima are hopeful that the far-right candidate, Flávio Bolsonaro, will revive the mining industry, which was heavily promoted by his father, Jair Bolsonaro, during his presidency. Under Jair's administration, an alarming 11 million acres (approximately 4.5 million hectares) of rainforest were destroyed.
