Fire on the Amazon (1993)

Directors

Luis Llosa

Cast

Craig Sheffer, Sandra Bullock, Juan Fernández, Judith Chapman, Ramsay Ross, David Elkin

The story

American magazine photojournalism RJ O'Brien arrives in Bolivia's Amazon basin to write a story about the rainforest. From his contact Chato, he learns of the efforts by Rafael Santos, the charismatic leader of the rubber tree tappers union, to lead a nonviolent resistance against corporate cattle ranchers. After numerous death threats, Santos is killed at his family home, seemingly by an indigenous assassin.

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