by Colombian Amazon Journal Investigations Desk | Sep 11, 2026 | Brazil, Deforestation, Geopolitics, Illegal Roads and Infrastructure, Indigenous Territories and Rights, Investigation
If BR-230 is the road that opened the Amazon, BR-319 is the road that could finish the job. Scientists call it the “tipping-point road”: the one stretch of highway that would connect Brazil’s southern arc of deforestation to the still-largely-intact...
by Colombian Amazon Journal Investigations Desk | Sep 11, 2026 | China, Chancay & Amazon Corridors, Geopolitics, Gold Mining & Garimpo, Investigation, Mercury Contamination, Mining and Mineral Extraction, Pan-Amazon
Ask “how much do the Chinese help illegal mining in the Amazon,” and the honest answer is not a single number. Chinese actors almost never run the mines and almost never carry the guns. What they do, across the Guianas, Bolivia, Brazil and Venezuela, is...
by Colombian Amazon Journal Investigations Desk | Sep 11, 2026 | Brazil, Deforestation, Geopolitics, Illegal Roads and Infrastructure, Indigenous Territories and Rights, Investigation, Trade, Infrastructure & Commodity Signals
Before the Chinese-backed railways and the Chancay megaport, there was a road. The Trans-Amazonian Highway, BR-230, was the original attempt to open the Brazilian Amazon to the outside economy, and more than half a century later it remains the clearest case study of...
by Colombian Amazon Journal Investigations Desk | Sep 11, 2026 | Analysis, Brazil, China, Chancay & Amazon Corridors, Geopolitics, Indigenous Territories and Rights, Peru, Trade, Infrastructure & Commodity Signals
“China’s Amazonian Railway” is not an official project name. It is the label English-language coverage attaches to a recurring idea: a bi-oceanic railway linking Brazil’s Atlantic-facing rail network to a Pacific port in Peru, across parts of...
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