Hi, it's Helen here.
Today in Focus is on our summer break, and in our absence,
we wanted to give you the chance to listen to this really excellent series called Missing in the Amazon.
It's hosted by The Guardian's Latin America correspondent, Tom Phillips,
and it's from our new narrative strand, Guardian Investigates.
It's a feed where you can find all of The Guardian's award-winning narrative podcasts,
plus every new series we release.
We'll see you on September 1st with a new Today in Focus, but in the meantime, here is episode one.
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 Pissango.
People call me Tataco.
Orlando and Tataco talk to me in Portuguese.