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Language barrier be damned... for a moment before opening the article I thought the Brazilian president was about to order SWAT raids on their Amazon corporations offices!:) Although it would change the headline, I believe adding a "(forest)" after "Amazon" would help to make the context much more clear. ...Not that it would make the news less alarming.

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This is not a language barrier per se. Amazon is the English name for the Amazon. In Portuguese it's called Amazônia.

Yes, but it's The Amazon and not Amazon.

Besides, Bolsonaro should be bound to a tree and flogged hard the same number of times a tree fell under his presidency.

I knew that, but I always believed it was related to the area only, not the forest within, so that it should be added explicitly when one refers to the forest. Just as we use the Amazon River to indicate the river.

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