Brazil | The Wages of Fear | Deadliest Journeys

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Published 2024-03-29
In Brazil, in the state of Para, a convoy of tanker trucks loaded with fuel plunges into the Amazon rainforest along a dilapidated track, illegally bulldozed. Their mission is to deliver diesel to gold miners who use water cannons and diesel engines to destroy one of the world’s most precious forests. Nearby, Cécilio and his family, indigenous Kayapo people, are driven out of their home as their ancestral territory is submerged by the artificial lake of the Bello Monte dam. Rendered homeless, they wander in search of a hypothetical shelter. This situation highlights the threat to this region, intensified by 200,000 kilometers of illegal tracks in the Amazon, revealed by satellites. These tracks, mainly in the states of Mato Grosso, Para, and Rondonia, provide access to isolated areas and are not marked on any maps. They enable colonists, often poor and desperate, to invade the forest in search of easy riches. These destructive practices follow only the law of the mightiest and quick profit. Farmers, landowners, and traffickers also enter the forest, ravaging it under the guise of development. They covet precious wood and gold. Over time, the Brazilian state legalizes these lands and paves the main tracks, but the deforested lands used for grazing quickly degrade into deserts within 10 to 20 years. Colonists and traffickers then take their bulldozers to create new illegal tracks, invading and burning millions of hectares for their cattle, further exacerbating the Amazon's agony.
All Comments (21)
  • @matchpoint14
    This narrator is the best. He makes the shows twice as good. Each time I watch one of these and it is not him at the start I get disappointed, he is that good
  • @imatter4619
    These documentaries are awesome, and it makes me appreciate the little I have.
  • @paquitoignacio3449
    What a terrible tragedy for the suffering of this people, no help the big companies are the only benefiting for losing their land
  • @altayebahmed402
    من السودان ارسل تحياتي وتقديري واحترامي لك
  • @user-lj1kf6my7z
    Je suis originaire du bresil adopté . j'adore ce pays malgré la pauvreté terrible . j'y ait voyage un mois que de supers souvenirs et quel beau pays et les gens tres gentils ,et l entraide que jaie apprécié que je ne trouve pas en France .
  • @jamaljames2578
    Always watching from Georgetown Guyana south America 🇬🇾🇬🇾🇬🇾
  • @paquitoignacio3449
    My deepest sympathy for this displaced people without government help, I show to survive in this predicament
  • @harrylen1688
    Best Documentary Brings out some Amazing reportage. Of course Now Nature is the victim but in late time People will pay buy their own life's responsible for future Catastrophes!!
  • @ramongomesbr
    Para um País cuja economia interna depende muito de caminhões, as estradas deviam ser prioridade de gestão; E o Norte do Brasil ainda possuí um sistema de estradas bastante precário!!
  • @ntlakaniphomsongelwa
    The poor animals 😢😢...but why people should go through this brutality of being forced out of their homes without help😢
  • @petebutler5139
    These videos give me anxiety and make want to drink!! 😅😂
  • @ronycardoso23
    Isso é muito dentro da cultura, região garimpeira de Itaituba quase no miolo da Amazônia.
  • @user-jk9dv8sj8u
    واقعااا خسته نباشید بایدگفت به همچنین ادم های زحمتکش دنیا
  • @tracyruth4247
    I love the narrator....hope he continues to do these documentaries!