Brazil’s All-In Bet on Amazon Dams Jeopardizes Economic Growth

Jose Carlos Arara puts a tarnished 38-caliber revolver into his waistband. It’s a sweltering, mid- November morning in the Brazilian Amazon rain forest, and the 31-year-old Indian chief walks through the jungle to check on his tribe’s yuca crop. Assassins are hunting Arara, police say, because he opposes plans to build the world’s third-largest hydroelectric […]