The Toll of the Drug Trade in the Brazilian Amazon – The New Yorker

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The Toll of the Drug Trade in the Brazilian Amazon

In the Amazonian wilderness, human settlements are becoming subjugated to the mind-numbing violence of the narco world.

via The New Yorker: http://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/the-toll-of-the-drug-trade-in-the-brazilian-amazon

In an artist’s statement Tommaso Protti tell us what it is we are witnessing: Brazil’s burgeoning economy has made it a wealthy country, and with that wealth it has become the world’s second-largest consumer of cocaine and its No. 1 consumer of crack