Volkswagen participated in one of the world’s first grand experiments in globalization half a century ago, partnering with Brazil’s authoritarian regime to develop the Amazon — and pressing poor, unwitting workers into service in the distant rainforest.

It sometimes seemed to Ricardo Rezende as if no one still remembered what had happened at Volkswagen’s cattle ranch in the Brazilian Amazon — the forced labor, the torture and violence, the deception and horror. But Rezende did. He’d recorded it all. https://t.co/iGheQmByvY

NEW: As Trump vows to eliminate birthright citizenship, we go inside the obscure "birth tourism" industry sending what could be thousands of women every year into the U.S. to birth to their children and secure for them U.S. citizenship. https://t.co/7V9pO16AV8

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The PCC wants him dead. The prosecutor now lives behind a security blanket that rivals that of a Brazilian president, erasing any semblance of a normal life. I spent week's inside Lincoln Gakiya's bunker to understand how he and his family survives a stress few can understand.

Our report from last week: https://t.co/NCE8dbMrWc

The plot to undo Brazilian democracy was only foiled not because Bolsonaro was no longer interested, the police said. But because of factors beyond his control, namely, senior military leaders didn't want to follow through on his plan.

NEWS: An investigation by the Brazilian federal police is released, identifying Jair Bolsonaro's leadership in a plot to subvert democracy, install authoritarian rule and assassinate political rivals, confirming our reporting last week by @falamarina.

Brazil police say they've solved the murder of @washingtonpost contributor Dom Phillips & Indigenous rights activist Bruno Pereira, charging that oversaw illegal poaching and fishing in a remote part of the Amazon. Read this sobering @terrence_mccoy piece

In 2022, my friend Dom Phillips was murdered and his body dismembered in a shocking act of violence that still haunt all who knew him. Police now say they have finally solved who killed him and Brazilian activist Bruno Pereira and why. It was revenge. https://t.co/GK3djxxU6V

I know how hard each Post journalist works to get it right. We sweat over every fact and believe to our core in the mission of seeking truth, holding the powerful to account, giving a voice to those without. And it's such a shame that fewer will now read that important work.

I know few will listen to this. I know people who hate the Post will celebrate this. But I've poured my heart into this paper for 10 years. I've worked the nightshift. Faced legal threats. Put my life at risk investigating wrongdoing. And this news just makes me so profoundly sad

SPORTSMANSHIP Team USA's Simone Biles and Jordan Chiles honor Rebeca Andrade after the Brazilian won Gold in the Floor Exercise. @falamarina and @terrence_mccoy wrote about the mutual admiration society between Biles and Andrade, the world's top gymnasts https://t.co/c1g1ctrkNp

We have the inside story on how Rebeca Andrade came back from three catastrophic knee injuries to today defeat Simone Biles -- who for years quietly quietly encouraged Andrade, telling her continue no matter what. https://t.co/zHmy8nEANo

You know Simone Biles. Now meet her biggest challenger: Rebeca Andrade, the 25-year-old Brazilian whom Biles herself helped pushed thru injuries and doubts to set up “a grand duel in Paris.” By @falamarina & @terrence_mccoy:

Um trabalho duro, de muito foco, viagem, entrevistas, contas, checagens, contas, rechecagens, investigação. Jornalismo profissional faz diferença no mundo, gente. Que honra trabalhar ao lado dos incríveis @terrence_mccoy e @juledurg, com ajuda mágica de @ceciliadolago ❤️

🛑 Na capa do @washingtonpost hoje!! Nossa investigação durou 6 meses e descobriu uma situação alarmante: A maioria dos projetos de crédito de carbono na Amazônia se sobrepõe a áreas públicas, sem autorização e com muita grana que não chega nas mãos de quem deveria. 👇🏻👇🏻

So much work went into this story, and now, finally, it's out. Our investigation into the carbon credit bonanza in the Amazon rainforest -- where companies are reaping a fortune off land they have no right to -- leading today's Washington Post.

Worse, when projects claim to be protecting lands *that are already protected,* they contribute next to nothing in the fight against climate change. “The victim is the planet,” we were told. “And all of humanity because we’re not reducing emissions, but get to pretend we are.”

The projects have generated hundreds of millions. But almost none of it has gone to those who live on the land and those who actually protect the forest. “They robbed from us,” one river person told us.