Rio Branco

So in mid-October, Murtaza said, they took a bus to Rio Branco, before making their way by foot, bus and taxi through Peru, Ecuador and Colombia.

On Oct 12, they set out for Rio Branco, a remote city on the border with Peru, where Osmani joined them.

“The forest communities still hold rubber tapping dear. They enjoy making a living off the latex,” she told the AP in an interview in her home in Rio Branco, Acre’s capital.

Rio Branco, the Acre state capital, is particularly vulnerable to this sequence.

Antonia Franco dos Santos and her grandson Davi wash dishes in late July at a pond near their home in Rio Branco.