Brazilian narcos go for the gold of the Amazon: shootings, bulldozers, planes and money (a lot of money)

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Brazilian narcos go for the gold of the Amazon: shootings, bulldozers, planes and money (a lot of money)

The sun had barely appeared on the horizon when Benildo Rodrigues took off that morning. His Cessna single propeller plane was loaded with more than 46 kilos of gold extracted from the depths of the Amazon. The loot, valued at more than four million dollars at the current price, had been extracted from the rainforest illegally.