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The Amazon as the Center of the World with Jonathan Watts

Jonathan Watts is a British journalist serving as the global environment editor of The Guardian. Based in the Amazon town of Altamira, Pará state, he is one of the cofounders of Sumauma, an independent news agency specialized in reporting from the Amazon. He has also reported from the Antarctic, Arctic, Amazon and several COP summits for The Guardian, covering, as he says, "a lot of grim stuff I wish wasn't happening and interviewing a lot of great people trying to stop it". Between 2012 and 2017, Watts was The Guardian's Latin America correspondent, when he interviewed political figures such as Brazilian presidents Lula da Silva and Dilma Rousseff and Bolivian president Evo Morales, among other political leaders of the region. He is the author of When a Billion Chinese Jump (Faber 2010), which was translated into four languages.

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Relations between the military and the Brazilian state

In the new episode of Brazil Unfiltered, James Naylor Green speaks with João Roberto Martins Filho, a renowned specialist on the relations between the military and the Brazilian state. On the program, Martins looks at the long shadow cast by the Brazilian Armed Forces over the country's governments.

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The Indigenous Humanitarian Crisis with Fiona Watson

​​In this episode of Brazil Unfiltered, James Naylor Green speaks with Fiona Watson. Fiona is Research and Advocacy Director at Survival International, the global movement for tribal peoples' rights. She has been with Survival since 1990 and worked on many campaigns for Indigenous peoples’ rights, notably with the Yanomami, Guarani, and Awá in Brazil. She has visited many Indigenous communities in South America and is a specialist on uncontacted tribes in the Amazon. She carried out fieldwork with a Quechua Indigenous community in the Peruvian Andes for her Masters degree and lived in the Brazilian Amazon for two years in the 1980s.

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The Lula-Biden meeting and Brazil-US Relations with Fernanda Magnotta

​​In this episode of Brazil Unfiltered, James Naylor Green speaks with Fernanda Magnotta. Fernanda is a specialist in United States foreign policy. She holds a PhD and a Master's degree from the San Tiago Dantas foreign relations post-graduation program, of a consortium of the State University of São Paulo (Unesp), the State University in Campinas (Unicamp) and the São Paulo Pontificate Catholic University (PUC-SP). Fernanda is also a professor and coordinator of the International Relations course at FAAP university, international politics columnist for the UOL news website and a commentator for CBN radio.

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