2025-06-06
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It's a Sunday morning in June 2022.
The Amazon jungle.
Forests so dense it can be hard to know if it's night or day.
And teeming with wildlife, most of which you can't see, but you can hear.
Macaws, jaguars, howler monkeys, frogs, creatures constantly moving between the trees.
On the riverbank, at a small ramshackle port, two men were waiting.
My name is Orlando Poçuelo.
My name is Cristóvão Negreiros Pissando.
People call me Tataco.
Orlando and Tataco talk to me in Portuguese.
Their words are being spoken here by actors.
It was early, but the sun was already rising high.
ferociously hot, glinting off the muddy waters of the Jabari River.
Orlando and Tatako worked for the local indigenous association.
They were here to meet their colleague, Bruno Pereira,
and a British journalist he was travelling with, Dom Phillips.
Bruno was late, and he was never late.