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LETTER FROMTHEAMAZON
BLOOD GOLD
In Brazil, indigenous people and illegal miners are engaged in
a fight that may help decide the future of the planet.
BY JON LEEANDERSON
wave of prospectors, encouraged by Brazil ’s President, threatens to upend a vital ecological balance in the rain forest.