Don't let me turn into a t-shirt

Farmer Erasmo Alves Teófilo, leader of the Vuelta Grande del Xingú, in the Amazon, is threatened with death for fighting the destructive power of public land thieves.Jonathan Watts

Erasmo Teófilo wakes up in Anapu, in the Amazon, not knowing if he will be alive at the end of the day.

With respiratory problems, the peasant leader is among the population most at risk if he catches the coronavirus.

But it is not the disease that has paralyzed the world that terrifies Erasmus, his wife, and their young children.

With the explicit support of Jair Bolsonaro, public land thieves, loggers and illegal miners see the pandemic as an opportunity to occupy protected territory.

The attacks against the Amazon and its protectors have multiplied their intensity.

And their...

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