Category:The Amazon

U.S. may mistake Amazon fishers for terrorists

River chat (part 3)

Tiffany Higgins

Jun 19, 2026 — 3 min read

Fisherpeople in Abaetetuba municipality in Pará state. Traditional peoples who use the Amazon’s riverways could be mistaken for drug runners, making them vulnerable to any U.S. operations targeting Brazilian cartels, researcher Thiago Sabino told me on a boat crossing the Tocantins River. Part of our River Chat series, bringing you stories direct from the Amazon's rivers. Photo: Tiffany Higgins.

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