#Polícia Federal

Women of the Kayapó people during a national gathering of indigenous peoples, in 2021.

Illegal gold mining

Brazilian police destroy three excavators and 19 huts at illegal gold mine inside Kayapó Indigenous Land

Senator Flávio Bolsonaro (PL-RJ) speaks to reporters at the Senate in Brasília in April 2026.

Brazilian senator Flávio Bolsonaro lands in Miami a day after police cancelled his passports

Satellite image of the merged urban area of Tabatinga, in Brazil's Amazonas state, and Leticia, in Colombia, in 2018.

Public security

Brazil sends federal security force to the Amazon border with Colombia for 90 days

Justice Alexandre de Moraes during his Senate confirmation hearing for the Supreme Court, in Brasília, in February 2017.

Brazilian justice freezes up to R$ 6 billion from lawyer Willer Tomaz and suspends his passports after a trip to Miami