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Today in Focus

Missing in the Amazon: the protector and the poacher – episode three

Today in Focus

The Guardian

News, Daily News

4.65.9K Ratings

🗓️ 27 August 2025

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Revisited: Bruno Pereira was considered one of the great Indigenous protectors of his generation. And this made him an enemy of a man called Amarildo da Costa de Oliveira, also known as Pelado. The Guardian’s Latin America correspondent, Tom Phillips, reports on the story of the two men and what happened when their paths collided. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/infocus

Transcript

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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 a new today in focus, but in the meantime, here is episode 3.

0:32.9

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0:47.6

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0:51.3

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0:55.9

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1:25.3

about two months before the disappearance of Dom and Bruno.

1:28.3

Bruno was going along the river with his colleague Tataku, who was driving their boat.

1:33.3

It was just the two of us, me and Bruno.

1:39.3

As they approached one of the villages along the riverbank, Bruno asked Tatak to get closer to the shore

1:46.2

and to cut the engine so he could take a photograph

1:48.9

that he wanted to send to Dom.

1:52.2

A photograph of the thick-set, dark-haired fisherman

1:55.7

who was standing outside his house,

1:58.2

looking right at them and holding a gun.

2:03.6

As they ne near the village, the man raised the gun and pulled the trigger.

2:11.6

It just missed. The lead shots landed just near our bullet.

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