ニューヨーク・タイムズのインスタグラム(nytimes) - 11月19日 05時31分

The photographer Dado Galdieri captured this #aerial view of #river traffic in Amapá State, #Brazil. On rivers in Brazil’s unruly wilderness, piracy has long been a fact of life. But as the population in the Amazon surges and drug gangs expand their sway over the region, hijacking opportunities have flourished. And police forces are struggling to keep up with the crime, culminating in a series of recent attacks that have terrorized riverboat crews and their passengers. The police released a video of men from one crew — the self-described Pirates of the Solimões River — interrogating a rival gangster next to a dead body. The video put riverbank dwellers on edge throughout the Amazon basin, but their growing alarm comes alongside other rapid changes in the region. The Brazilian Amazon’s population surged 22% between 2000 and 2010 — nearly double the rate of the country as a whole. The region, one of the poorest parts of Brazil, is now home to nearly 25 million people. Residents in remote riverbank villages complain that police boats rarely venture into the waterways where many of the pirate attacks take place. But for the police who are chasing pirates in the Amazon, patrolling the colossal rivers can resemble a futile game of cat-and-mouse.

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