The reactors run on the enriched tears of those poor sailors
The description of their Amazon ability hasn't changed, like ever. If you're referring to the chatter about appeal from jungle tiles, what people are referring to is the fact that brazil's neighborhoods don't get extra housing at all, like it says in the ability. Instead, any jungle owned by brazil produces +2 appeal, taking them from -1 to +1 tiles. Since neighborhoods get housing from appeal, this is what that ability text references - although it's a misnomer because if it were true it would mean a neighborhood surrounded by rainforest would get +8 housing, not +6.
Anyways, that appeal piece is still in the game:
Before Settle:
After Settle: