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Protesters are seen trying to invade the Rio de Janeiro Legislative House
during one of the first protests against the Brazilian government of 2013 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. (Photo by MAURO PIMENTEL / TERRA)

Employing urban combat tactics, Brazilian army military police personnel patrol along an alley in the Rocinha favela in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil on September 25, 2017. - Security officials said the giant Rocinha favela in Rio de Janeiro was back under control Saturday after hundreds of soldiers and police were sent to battle heavily armed drug traffickers. (Photo by Mauro PIMENTEL / AFP)

A woman and kids wlks past an armoured vehicle as the Armed Forces, backed by armoured vehicles, aircraft and heavy engineering equipment, take part in an operation in the violence-plagued favela of Vila Kennedy, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on March 7, 2018. - The Brazilian army launched a new operation on a favela in Rio de Janeiro, the third since President Michel Temer ordered the military to take over the command of security in the whole of Rio state to fight organized crime. (Photo by Mauro PIMENTEL / AFP)

"Everything was shaking and I saw huge trees and people disappearing under the mud," said Emerson dos Santos, 30, sitting on the roof of his family home to protect what is left of their belongings from looters at the mud-hit area a day after the collapse of a dam at an iron-ore mine belonging to Brazil's giant mining company Vale near the town of Brumadinho in the state of Minas Gerais in southeastern Brazil, on January 26, 2019.

Members of the Warao tribe, Venezuela's second-largest indigenous group, rest in hammocks at the Janokoida shelter where they have been taking refuge in the border city of Pacaraima, Roraima State, Brazil, on August 21, 2018. - Desperate Venezuelans fleeing the country's crisis continue to cross the Brazilian border, despite the violent anti-migrant riot that took place last week in the border town of Pacaraima. (Photo by Mauro PIMENTEL / AFP)

A relative reacts during the funeral of Brazilian musician Evaldo dos Santos Rosa, who was killed by an army unit when it shot at his car by mistake, at Ricardo de Albuquerque Cemetery in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil on April 10, 2019. - Brazilian military authorities detained 10 soldiers who were part of a unit that shot over 80 times at a vehicle in Guadalupe neighborhood, Rio de Janeiro, killing a man and injuring two others Sunday. (Photo by Mauro Pimentel / AFP)

A giant banner reading "Get Out Bolsonaro" is pictured during a national strike protest called by unions and students against the Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro's pension reform in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on June 14, 2019. - Bolsonaro's ambitious overhaul of Brazil's pension system -- which he has warned will bankrupt the country if his proposal is not approved -- is seen as key to getting a pipeline of economic policies through Congress. (Photo by MAURO PIMENTEL / AFP)

Supporters of Chilean president-elect Gabriel Boric celebrate following the official results of the runoff presidential election, in Santiago, on December 19, 2021. - With more than 99 percent of ballots counted, leftist lawmaker Gabriel Boric, 35, became Chile's youngest-ever president leading with 55.86 percent to 44 percent for his far-right rival Jose Antonio Kast, said the Servel website, with a star to indicate the winner. (Photo by MAURO PIMENTEL / AFP)

View of the scene where an alleged drug trafficker was reportedly killed by civil police in Jacarezinho favela, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil on May 6, 2021. - A massive police operation against drug traffickers in a Brazilian favela Thursday left 25 people dead, turning the impoverished Rio de Janeiro neighborhood into a battlefield and drawing condemnation from rights groups. (Photo by MAURO PIMENTEL / AFP)

Brazilian accountant Tercio Galdino, 66, gives the thumb up to people riding a motorcycle as he and his wife Alicea Galdino walk along Leme beach in protective suits, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil on July 12, 2020. - Tercio, who has a chronic lung disease, made the protective suits (looking like astronauts gear) at home using suits used by health professionals. He says that, in addition to giving him protection against the new coronavirus, they also wear them for fun, as he has huge interest in astronomy. (Photo by Mauro Pimentel / AFP)

A volunteer throws water to control a fire using a water tank truck to protect a wooden bridge - one of 119 bridges of the Transpantaneira Park Road - at the wetland of Pantanal at the Transpantaneira park road in Mato Grosso state, Brazil, on September 13, 2020. - Pantanal is suffering its worst fires in more than 47 years, destroying vast areas of vegetation and causing death of animals caught in the fire or smoke. (Photo by Mauro Pimentel / AFP)

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