Missing in the Amazon: the disappearance – episode 1

Politics Weekly UK

The Guardian

News, Politics

4.1 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 6 June 2025

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Three years ago, British journalist Dom Phillips and Brazilian indigenous defender Bruno Pereira vanished while on a reporting trip near Brazil’s remote Javari valley. The Guardian’s Latin America correspondent, Tom Phillips, investigates what happened in the first episode of a new six-part investigative podcast series. Find episode 2 – and all future episodes – by searching for ‘Missing in the Amazon’. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/politicspod

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0:00.0	This is The Guardian.
0:06.2	Hello, this is John Harris, host of the Guardian's Politics Week, the UK podcast.
0:11.4	Today we're bringing you something new, episode one of a brand new series called Missing in the Amazon,
0:17.2	reported and presented by our Latin America correspondent Tom Phillips.
0:21.6	If you like it, make sure to search for missing in the Amazon
0:24.8	wherever you get your podcasts and subscribe to the feed.
0:28.3	There you'll find episode two,
0:30.4	as well as all of our award-winning investigative podcast series.
0:34.2	Missing in the Amazon starts right after this.
0:57.0	It's a Sunday morning in June 2022, the Amazon jungle. Forests so dense it can be hard to know if it's night or day.
1:05.0	And teeming with wildlife, most of which you can't see, but you can hear.
1:17.6	Macaws, jaguars, howler monkeys, frogs, creatures constantly moving between the trees.
1:30.3	On the riverbank, at a small ramshackle port, two men were waiting.
1:35.3	My name is Orlando Possello.
1:38.3	My name is
1:40.3	Orlando Posuelo.
1:42.3	My name is Christovon Negreus Pissando. My name is Christopo Negreroz Pissando.
1:45.0	People come Tatako.
1:47.0	Orlando and Tataku talk to me in Portuguese.
1:49.0	Their words are being spoken here by actors.
1:54.0	It was early, but the sun was already rising high,
1:58.0	ferociously hot, glinting off the muddy waters of the Javari River.
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