Missing in the Amazon: the fightback – episode five

Today in Focus

The Guardian

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4.6 • 5.9K Ratings

🗓️ 29 August 2025

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Revisited: 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. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/infocus

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0:00.0	Hi, it's Helen here. Today in focus is on our summer break and in our absence, we wanted to give you the chance to listen to this really excellent series called Missing in the Amazon.
0:10.1	It's hosted by the Guardian's Latin America correspondent Tom Phillips and it's from our new narrative strand, Guardian Investigates.
0:17.2	It's a feed where you can find all of the Guardian's award-winning narrative podcasts, plus every new series we release.
0:23.7	We'll see you on September 1st with the new today in focus, but in the meantime, here is episode 5.
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1:08.8	Dom's funeral took place exactly three weeks after he was killed.
1:13.4	And I can say, with some confidence, that there's never been a funeral quite like it.
1:18.6	So I have no words in English to explain this.
1:20.9	So Portuguese.
1:21.9	Yeah.
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