Sting Instagram – #Repost @trudiestyler ・・・ Where are Dom Phillips and Bruno Pareira? A British journalist, Dom Phillips, and an Indigenous affairs expert, Bruno Araújo Pareira, are missing in a remote part of Brazil’s Amazon region. The two were last seen last weekend in the Javari region of Amazonas state traveling by boat. They were on their way to interview members of an indigenous guard. Philips is known for his love of the Amazon region and frequently reports on the environment and its indigenous communities. He was traveling with Pareira who is a former government official tasked with protecting Brazil’s uncontacted tribes. They received threats days before vanishing. As Lucy Jordan writes in the Guardian: “Of course, we don’t yet know exactly what has happened. But for those of us who have been following Brazil’s grim political reality for the past three years, we’re not just sad, worried and fearful. We’re also incandescent with rage. As time passes, foul play becomes an even more likely explanation. This is it, we want to scream. This is the logical consequence of three years of encouraging violence against Indigenous people and journalists. Under president Jair Bolsonaro, attacks on the press have increased. He peppers his speeches with anti-Indigenous, anti-conservation dog whistles. Bolsonaro has consistently presented environmental protections and Indigenous rights as mere impediments to economic development; nuisances that stand in the way of a more muscular, industrial Brazil. Many appear to have taken him at his word.” More info in my stories.