Missing in the Amazon: the fightback – episode five

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The Guardian

Society & Culture, Documentary

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 23 June 2025

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Funerals are held for Dom Phillips and Bruno Pereira and there is hope that the election of President Lula will mean new protections for the Amazon – and that the killers of Dom and Bruno will face justice. But organised crime is widespread and deep-rooted. The investigative journalist Sônia Bridi tells the Guardian’s Latin America correspondent Tom Phillips about a man who allegedly not only may have helped plan the killings but may have ordered them. A man whose name strikes fear across the region

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0:00.0	This is The Guardian.
0:07.4	Hi, this is Michael Safi, host of The Guardians today in Focus podcast.
0:11.5	This is a new feed where you'll find all of the Guardian's award-winning investigative podcast series,
0:16.7	including our new show missing in the Amazon.
0:19.3	New episodes will come out every Monday for the rest of June.
0:22.8	Episode 5 is right after this.
0:28.0	Hey, it's Babberton de Alessi here.
0:30.5	I've just got back from an epic road trip around the island of Ireland.
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1:05.1	Dom's funeral took place exactly three weeks after he was killed.
1:09.4	And I can say, with some confidence, that there's never been a funeral quite like it.
1:14.7	So I have no words in English to explain this.
1:17.2	So Portuguese.
1:21.0	In fact, the don't,
1:22.5	he left a testament,
1:24.6	very well organized.
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