The Times on those two men missing, probably murdered, in the Amazon:

The Javari Valley in the Amazon rainforest is one of the most isolated places on the planet. It is a densely forested Indigenous reserve the size of Maine where there are virtually no roads, trips can take a week by boat and at least 19 Indigenous groups are believed to still live without outside contact.

The reserve is also plagued by illegal fishing, hunting and mining, a problem exacerbated by government budget cuts under President Jair Bolsonaro. Now local Indigenous people have started formally patrolling the forest and rivers themselves, and the men who exploit the land for a living have responded with increasingly dire threats.

Dom Phillips, a British journalist who has lived in Brazil for fifteen years, went to the Javari Valley to interview the Indigenous patrols, along with Bruno Araújo Pereira, an expert on Indigenous groups who was helping the patrols. Last Saturday they encountered a boat with some illegal fishermen, who made a point of showing their guns. They left for home on Sunday and haven’t been seen since.

Over the past three days, various search crews, from Indigenous groups to the Brazilian Navy, have scoured the area; Brazilian politicians and celebrities have called for more action to find the men; and their disappearance has led the morning newspapers and nightly news across the country.

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Mr. Phillips, who also wrote regularly for The New York Times in 2017, has dedicated much of his career to documenting the struggle between the people who want to protect the Amazon and those who want to exploit it. Mr. Pereira has spent years defending Indigenous groups under the resulting threat. Now fears are growing that their latest journey deep into the rainforest could end up as one of the grimmest illustrations of that conflict.

Meanwhile much of the left is too busy being Allies to men who say they are women to pay any attention to pesky Indigenous groups in the Amazon. (On the version of this article I’m reading the text is interrupted by a giant gaudy blue- and pink-striped banner ad from the ACLU shouting STOP ANTI TRANS BILLS.)