The pickuptrucks left before dawn. Their occupants—six military police and nine agents from Brazil’s national parks service—worebulletproof vests. Their target was an illegal gold mine deep in the Amazon. To save the rainforest, Brazil’snew governmentis trying to catch the criminals who cut it down.
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