Pelé joins the call for the "disappearance" of a British journalist and an activist in the Amazon

• They find blood on the boat of the detainee for the two disappeared in the Amazon

Pelé has joined the call for the "disappearance" of the British environmental journalist

and the indigenous rights activist

, which occurred last Sunday when they crossed the

region by boat , on the

.

"The fight for the conservation of the Amazon rainforest and indigenous groups belongs to all of us," wrote the one who was the best soccer player in the world at 81 years old.

"I have been moved by the disappearance of Dom Phillips and Bruno Pereira. And I join the voices that are calling for their search to be intensified."

In addition to the famous soccer player, former president

, singer

and indigenous leader

have joined the petition before the Brazilian government.

From the United Kingdom, the wife of Dom Phillips,

, posted a painful video on social media: "I ask the federal government and all relevant agencies to

."

Police have so far detained a

linked to the double "disappearance": Amarildo Costa de Oliveira, who broke into a meeting with 13 indigenous people on Saturday morning along

with two heavily armed men .

The suspect allegedly threatened the journalist and the activist, who then left on a two-day expedition through the Amazon jungle and never returned to the city of

, where they were expected.

Dom Phillips, a regular contributor to

and

, was working on a book on sustainable development in the Amazon funded by the

.

Bruno Pereira works for the Observatory for the Human Rights of Isolated or Recently Contacted Indigenous Peoples (OPI), a group that protects 26 tribes in the remote Javari Valley.

More than 20 newspapers and media outlets, led by

and

, have meanwhile addressed a letter to President Bolsonaro expressing their "concern over the minimal resources and limited assistance to local authorities" and calling for "an

to find the whereabouts of Dom and Bruno.

"We need more police, civil protection, the army, firefighters,"

a local indigenous leader, told

on the ground .

"The area is full of organized gangs, hunters and illegal miners who roam freely and with total impunity. Under the government of

, the pressure has become more unsustainable."

was murdered in the area

, executed in the purest mafia style: with

in the city of Tabatinga.

With twenty dead,

for "environmental reasons" (Colombia was the first with 65, followed by the Philippines and Mexico, with 30 and 29).

According to the organization Global Witness,

(of the 227 that occurred worldwide that year)

The activist

worked for years at

, the official agency dedicated to contact with indigenous communities, which saw its personnel and resources severely reduced with the arrival of

to power.

Pereira was in fact fired from Funai in 2019 after managing to

.

"

, they took the compromised people and left us without protection for the staff or for the land," Antenor Vaz

, former director of Funai in the area , denounces in

"Bruno's position, which was basically to coordinate the work in the area, was given to an evangelical pastor."

Burno Pereira ended up working at the

, due to his status as an expert in recently contacted communities and his negotiating skills.

"

that we have who encourages violence", denounces the executive coordinator of the IPO,

.

"Bolsonaro has given his support to illegal mining and

. We can see what is happening before our very eyes. The number of "invasions" has increased enormously."

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