đ€Ł thanks!! I had to sleep there for two nights to report that. It was quite noisy!! đ€Ż
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đ€Ł thanks!! I had to sleep there for two nights to report that. It was quite noisy!! đ€Ż
Missing in the Amazon: the frontline â episode six
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"Itâll become the cause celebre for every kind of criminal or illegal armed group in the Americas ⊠Youâll end up having people going to Venezuela to fight the Yankees and I think itâll get messy" www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...
âBy the time climate negotiators arrived, the adult channels on its televisions would have been deactivated; the sex shop selling nursesâ costumes removed; and the laminated catalogues offering furry handcuffs and âReal Peterâ dildos replaced by English-language menus offering foodâ
EstadĂŁo editorial new Portuguese word of the day: "grei" (flock) www.estadao.com.br/opiniao/a-de...
"This truly is unprecedented and historic ... Our democracy is going through an acid test and itâs possible it will come out of this strengthened" www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...
"Itâs over," says Brazil's guerrilla trumpeter @trompetista.bsky.social, as Jair Bolsonaro's day of judgement arrives www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
âNo one in their right mind thinks that with 4,500 people you can invade a country thatâs got mountains, jungle and multiple urban centresâ www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
"The two countriesđ§đ· +đșđž seem to be swapping places. America is becoming more corrupt, protectionist and authoritarian ... By contrast, [Brazil is] determined to safeguard and strengthen its democracy," says the Economist www.economist.com/leaders/2025...
âThis excellent investigation into Dom and Brunoâs murders is a true crime podcast in only the literal sense. Avoiding the often-exploitative pitfalls of the genre, it's far more about who they were in life than how they died.â www.bbc.com/culture/arti...
I finally took the time to listen carefully and attentively to the Dom and Bruno podcast and it's amazing! It goes hand in hand with "How to Save the Amazon", Dom Phillips book project that was finished by his friends. A must listen / read!
Thanks so much for listening, Gabriel!
'The police report also exposed the foul-mouthed infighting playing out between members of the Bolsonaro clan & key supporters. In a WhatsApp exchange found on Jair Bolsonaroâs phone Eduardo Bolsonaro tells his father: âGo and fuck yourself you fucking ingrate!â www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
hoje Ă noite em BrasĂlia, logo mais Ă noite, para lembrar e celebrar o legado de Dom Phillips e Bruno Pereira >
"Iâve said to Trump: If what happened in the Capitol had happened in Brazil, he would be put on trial here in Brazil too" www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
BrasĂlia, Mexico City, Lima. âDo you want to live in places like that?â Trump asked reporters today. Well, yes, actually. đ€·đœââïž
âIâm convinced God has chosen Trump as a liberator,â Edite Costa proclaimed as she stood in her garden clutching the American flag she waves at pro-Bolsonaro rallies.
Bolsonaro supporters pray for Trump rescue as coup plot trial verdict nears
âBarricades first appeared on the roads leading into Rioâs favelas in the 1980s, supersized speed bumps designed to smash the suspension of any vehicle that tried to cross them at speed. Sometimes, traffickers placed nail-filled potatoes on the humps to puncture police tyresâ
âOnly through a nearly-400mm camera lens is it possible to make out a small group of people standing among the ruins of a shattered landscape â the only sign of life in a place that appears otherwise uninhabitable.â www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
The Rio tabloid Meia Hora says Bolsonaro is going to experience social distancing, five years too late! đ
"After Bolsonaroâs house arrest, the state department hinted that other members of Brazilâs 11-seat supreme court could soon face Magnitsky sanctions"
Thereâs a man driving around the outside of Bolsonaroâs house with his windows down and his music on loud. âTĂ NA HORA DO JAIR TĂ NA HORA DO JAIR JAIR EM CANA JAIR EM CANAâ
âMetal barricades have been erected around the supreme court, foreign ministry and congress in anticipation of possible rightwing protests or violence.â
âMoraes claimed the Brazilians behind the alleged plot were trying to trigger âan economic crisis, that would create a social and then a political crisis so that, once again, there might be social instability and the chance of a new putschist attackâ.
âDemocracy in El Salvador has died"
"Mr Bolsonaroâs allies make the 8 January riot sound like a tea-party. Any cursory search of the riot shows that it was a vandalistic orgy," says the @economist.com www.economist.com/the-americas...
"Over the past six months, Donald Trump has been accused of rapidly dragging the largest democracy in the Americas towards authoritarianism. Now, the US president seems bent on undermining the regionâs second largest democracy too." www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Tacou?
ânot just an affront to a supreme court minister ⊠[but also] a direct attack on Brazilian democracy and sovereigntyâ
"If [Trump] got to know me, heâd know that Iâm 20 times better than [Bolsonaro]," @lulaoficialbluesky.bsky.social tells @jacknicas.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/07/30/w...
Today: regozijar
4 months ago I went to visit Arturo SuĂĄrez's wife & baby daughter in Chile, as he languished behind bars in El Salvador. Fortunately he's now free. But how terribly cruel that I've met his kid but he hasn't, all because he was swallowed up by a political game www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
âThe truth must be heard all over the world. Otherwise what they did to us will be ignoredâ
While I don't know of any specific polling about what Britons think of Javier Milei, I'm not 100% convinced this is an election-winning pitch. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Pretty much every day I learn a new Portuguese word from the EstadĂŁo editorial section. Hoje, "rega-bofe"...
"The US secretary of state, Marco Rubio, has stripped 8 of Brazilâs 11 supreme court judges of their US visas as the White House escalates its campaign to help the countryâs former president Jair Bolsonaro avoid justice over his alleged attempt to seize power with a military coup."
"Federal police are investigating what role, if any, Bolsonaro had in convincing Trump to hit Brazil with 50% tariffs in an apparent attempt to pressure Brazilian authorities into dropping the charges against Bolsonaro or pardoning him" www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
He's reportedly been ordered to wear an electronic tag, stay at home after 7pm - and forbidden from talking to foreign ambassadors
Jair Bolsonaro reportedly got a knock at the door from federal police at home in Brasilia this morningâŠ
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Brazil passes âdevastation billâ that drastically weakens environmental law President has 15 days to approve or veto legislation that critics say will lead to vast deforestation and destruction of Indigenous communities www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
Bora lĂĄ? Letâs go?
âJair Bolsonaro couldnât care less about Brazil. Heâs a phoney patriot" www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
This Wednesday we will be celebrating Domâs book here in Rio. Please come!
Thanks so much Esther!
Thank you Nick!
NEW from me + @tomphillips.bsky.social :How the Haitian government is using drone attacks to wrest control of capital from criminal gangs, aided by Erik Prince of the notorious Blackwater mercenary outfit. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
TrĂȘs anos depois do crime que tirou a vida de Bruno Pereira e Dom Phillips, o repĂłrter @tomphillips.bsky.social lançou o podcast Missing in the Amazon. No Fio da Meada, ele contou para Branca Vianna o que a reportagem revela a respeito da AmazĂŽnia hoje. radionovelo.com.br/originais/fi...
The sixth and final episode of our Dom & Bruno podcast âMissing in the Amazonâ is out now
Quais os melhores restaurantes do centro do Rio de Janeiro?
"The #podcast is about how they lived & what they lived for, far more than how they died" "Missing in the #Amazon", a #podcast on the murders of Bruno Pereira, a defender of indigenous peoples rights & Dom Phillips, a British journalist @tomphillips.bsky.social podcastreview.org/review/missi...
A very kind review of Missing in the Amazon, our new @theguardian.com podcast series about Dom & Bruno đ podcastreview.org/review/missi...
The latest episode of Missing in the Amazon - our @theguardian.com podcast about Dom + Bruno - is out now: "The Fight Back", with @soniabridi.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/technology/a...
In 2022, Dom Phillips and Bruno Pereira disappeared on a reporting trip near Brazilâs remote Javari valley ... Our latest six-part podcast series, Missing in the Amazon, uncovers the full story. Listen wherever you get your podcasts. theguardian.com/MITA/socials
âI have always felt so proud and happy to be working for the NHS. Why are my innocent children being treated like this?â www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Thank you so much for listening. We appreciate it a lot - and tudo de bom para vocĂȘ tambĂ©m!
AmanhĂŁ em SĂŁo Paulo! Tomorrow in SĂŁo Paulo!
Muito obrigado, Dany
Episode four of Missing in the Amazon, our @theguardian.com podcast about Dom and Bruno, is out now www.theguardian.com/technology/a...
Thank you for sharing Guy
Episode three of our @theguardian.com podcast about Dom and Bruno, Missing in the Amazon, is out now www.theguardian.com/technology/a...
Episode three of our @theguardian.com podcast about Dom and Bruno, Missing in the Amazon, is out now www.theguardian.com/technology/a...
Thank you for listening and sharing Esther!
"This is the first time in Brazilian history that there is the prospect of the perpetrators of a coup being brought to justice," says @bernardomf.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
I've traveled lots to the Javari in the last 3 years but this was BY FAR the toughest trip. 100km hiked through farms + jungle in 1 week. 2 terrifying days on a tiny Amazon river. But so inspiring to see these awesome Indigenous warriors at work on the front line www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
What's the best way to translate "lacrar" in English? Take the piss?
Thank you Jack!
Obrigado!
Thank you Anthony
"The podcast Missing in the Amazon is a tribute to 2 brilliant & much-missed men: an intrepid reporter and a tenacious indigenous expert who, in their different ways, sought to defend Brazilâs indigenous communities & the rainforests where they live" www.theguardian.com/gnm-press-of...
The podcast @tomphillips.bsky.social has been working on for months is finally out! Listen to âMissing in the Amazonâ today
Out now: the first episodes of our new six-part @theguardian.comâŹâ© podcast series about Dom and Bruno and the Amazon. Please do listen and share. www.theguardian.com/technology/a...
âTo mark the anniversary of the killings of Dom & Bruno, the Guardian â which is today launching a major investigative podcast series about the men called Missing in the Amazon â joined a gruelling week-long expedition in the rainforestâ www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
Out tomorrow: the first episodes of our six-part podcast series about Dom and Bruno and the Amazon. Listen wherever you get your podcasts www.theguardian.com/technology/a...
Trumpâs lawlessness is emboldening El Salvadorâs brutal regime | Noah Bullock and Amrit Singh
"Brazil Avenue is an avenue that is so profoundly revealing about what our country is. It faithfully represents the name it bears": our story about the drama of Rio de Janeiro's "Avenida Ziquizira" www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
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De volta aos podcasts (por um dia), no @theguardian.com From president to fugitive: in the jungle hideout of Evo Morales open.spotify.com/episode/2pSp...
Is this Beijing courting the many Latin American tourists no longer keen to travel to the US? "CHINA FOREIGN MINISTRY, ON VISA-FREE ARRANGEMENT: GRANTS VISA-FREE POLICY TO BRAZIL, ARGENTINA, CHILE, PERU AND URUGUAY NATIONALS FROM JUNE 1 2025 TO MAY 31 2026"
Venezuelans held in a high-security prison in El Salvador shouted âfreedomâ and used a hand signal for help in a video published by the far-right One America News Network, a rare glimpse of the detainees since they were sent there by the U.S. in March www.reuters.com/world/americ...
JosĂ© âPepeâ Mujica obituary: former Uruguay president and urban guerilla who gave away 90% of his salary www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
âIf the US doesnât come back to its senses soon, Trumpâs binge of self-destructiveness could enhance Chinaâs rise without Xi having to lift a finger. You could think of it as Americaâs Great Leap Backward.â www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Brazilâs president seeks âindestructibleâ relations with China amid Trump trade war www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
âI think this is a good thing for Peru. Itâs like winning the World Cup!â
âLittle Monsters wearing extravagant outfits in homage to Gaga had overrun Rio in the days leading up to Saturday, infusing the city with an out-of-season carnival atmosphere,â reports @constancemalleret.bsky.social
For the CBF, the hoo-ha was a helpful diversion as it sought to shift attention away from its failure to recruit Carlo Ancelotti & a compromising exposĂ© in @revistapiaui.bsky.social âIt distracts from the things that really matter,â said @blogdojuca.bsky.social
âThe Venezuelan community lives in uncertainty & in terror,â said @adeferro.bsky.social âPeople are petrified. They are thinking: âWhat if I am next? What if they stop me? What is going to happen?ââ
Our latest story on the Venezuelan migrants slipping off the map in the US. "Itâs unbelievable that they just grabbed them and sent them to a concentration camp" (with @clavelrangel.bsky.social) www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
100 days that's felt like a 100 years and 100 seconds. @theguardian.com launched looked at the whirlwind start to Donald Trump's second term and tried to make sense of everything that's happened www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
Our latest story on the Venezuelan migrants slipping off the map in the US. "Itâs unbelievable that they just grabbed them and sent them to a concentration camp" (with @clavelrangel.bsky.social) www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Foi tudo na simpatia đ€Ł
Jogador caro! đ€Ł
Just been approached in the street in Rio by a man who called me âHarry Potterâ, âBig Daddyâ and âExpensive Playerâ. Vai entender⊠đ€Ł
No prizes for guessing which will be the most read Guardian story of the day... đ
âWhat heâs trying to do â to negotiate innocent Venezuelans back and forth with the Maduro dictatorship â is despicable,â said @adeferro.bsky.social âWe cannot celebrate two authoritarians negotiating back and forth with Venezuelan lives.â
Thanks for sharing, Frank