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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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Foreign policy under Lula

New ep of Brazil Unfiltered! @JamesNGreen speaks with Maria Hermínia Tavares de Almeida about the Brazilian foreign policy under the Lula government.

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Solidarity and Resistance in Latin America

In the new episode of Brazil Unfiltered, James Naylor Green speaks with Jan Rocha, a British born journalist and writer who has just released the book "CLAMOR: The search for the disappeared of the South American dictatorships". Rocha was correspondent for the BBC World Service and The Guardian in Brazil from the 1970s to the 90s and currently writes about politics for LAB (Latin America Bureau). In 2020 she published "Nossa Correspondente Informa", a selection of BBC stories broadcast during the Brazilian dictatorship. She has twice won the Vladimir Herzog Human Rights prize for journalism, in the categories of radio and books. From 2013-2014 she was a consultant to the Brazilian Truth Commission. On the show, Rocha discusses the lessons from the networks of solidarity and resistance in 1970s and 1980s Latin America

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Lula's first 100 days with André Pagliarini

Lula's first 100 days with André Pagliarini, an assistant professor of history and fellow in the Wilson Center for Leadership in the Public Interest at Hampden-Sydney College in central Virginia.

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How the mining boom has impacted the environment

How the mining boom has impacted the environment with Mauricio Angelo, an award-winning international freelance investigative journalist and the founder of The Mining Observatory, a Brazilian based investigative journalism Centre established in 2015

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Relations between the military and the Brazilian state

The military and Democracy with João Roberto Martins Filho, professor emeritus of Political Science at the Federal University of São Carlos with a doctorate in Social Science from the State University of Campinas.

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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.

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