Missing in the Amazon: the journalist and the president – episode two
Today in Focus26 Aug 2025

Missing in the Amazon: the journalist and the president – episode two

Revisited: What took the British journalist Dom Phillips from the club nights of the UK dance scene as editor of Mixmag to one of the most remote and dangerous corners of the Amazon rainforest? In 2022, Dom set off on a reporting trip with Bruno Pereira, a Brazilian expert on uncontacted tribes, into the Javari valley to investigate the criminal gangs threatening the region. And then they vanished. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/infocus

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