In May 2011, married environmental activists Zé Cláudio Ribeiro and Maria do Espirito Santo were shot to genocide outward their residence in a Amazonian state of Para.

A month after VICE trafficked to Zé Cláudio’s hometown of Marabá, that was once in a center of a rainforest and is now surrounded by miles and miles of clearcut cattle land.

As a review into Zé and Maria’s murders went nowhere, VICE gathering into a timberland to a site of a killings, followed a heavily armed group of Brazil’s environmental insurance group as they destitute adult bootleg joist mills, visited a belligerent squatters of Brazil’s Landless Movement, met complicated day slaves, and marveled during a lawless, aroused atmosphere that permeates a city locals call Marabála (that means Mara-bullets).

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