A dream that's always out of reach: trafficked gold miners in the Brazilian Amazon

Brasilia (Brazil), 15 May 2024 - The Tapajos River runs 840 kilometers through the heart of the Brazilian Amazon, cutting through indigenous territories, national parks, poverty-stricken towns and many of Brazil's small-scale gold mining sites - or garimpos as they are called in Portuguese.

In this environment, where goldmining is often illegal, garimpeir