‘I’m going there.’ Oil drilling fuels a migrant surge in isolated city in Brazil’s Amazon

OIAPOQUE, Brazil (AP) — On a recent morning, Reginaldo Nunes Fonseca smoked cigarettes from the porch of his friend’s wooden shack, watching the rain come down hard in an area now known as Nova Conquista — New Conquest — where pristine rainforest in Brazil’s Amazon stood a year ago. The rain meant...

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