Brazil’s election and the battle for the Amazon – podcast | Brazil

For the Amazon and the communities who reside there, the stakes in Sunday’s Brazilian presidential election runoff might scarcely be greater.

Our Latin America correspondent, Tom Phillips heads to Roraima, the nation’s most northern state, to listen to from voters, preachers and politicians in a area that closely backed Flávio Bolsonaro within the first spherical.

He finds all of them hopeful that the far-right candidate will carry again the mining that his father Jair so heartily inspired when in energy in an administration that oversaw the felling of 11m acres (4.5m hectares) of rainforest.

Tom additionally meets Indigenous activists decided to battle again even when the Bolsonaros take energy once more.

Helen Pidd asks what it’s going to all imply, not just for Brazil but in addition for the local weather disaster extra broadly.