Vale do Javari: non-indigenous population also lives with violence
To enter the Javari Valley , the visitor needs to travel through some cities in the Amazon. After arriving in Tabatinga, where the nearest airport is located, you need to take a boat to Benjamin Constant and, from there, a car to Atalaia do Norte. All this in the midst of the immensity of the largest tropical forest in the world and close to the Amazon Triple Frontier, a region of intense conflicts due to drug trafficking and land interests.The distance between the towns of Benjamin Constant and Atalaia do Norte, where the headquarters of the Union of Indigenous People of Vale do Javari (Univaja) is located, is about half an hour by car, when there is no rain to delay the trip.In the surroundings and on the road connecting the two cities there is no lack of symbols of those who hold po...