The wife and the sister of a missing British journalist have called on the Brazilian government to pull out all the stops to find him after he vanished in a remote corner of the Amazon rainforest.
Dom Phillips, 57, has not been seen since Sunday morning when he left the village of Sao Rafael in the Vale do Javari—not far from the border with Peru—with an indigenous adviser, Bruno Araujo Pereira, who had recently received a threatening letter believed to be linked to his fight with illegal gangs plundering the Javari river for fish.
The pair never arrived in Atalaia do Norte and the O Globo newspaper reported that a few days earlier Pereira received a letter which warned, “We know who you are and we’ll find you to settle the score.”…