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 the 1st with the new Today in Focus,
but in the meantime here is episode four.
previously on Missing in the Amazon.
It became clear that Pelado had become a kind of a major poacher who had gradually built up a business.
This guy, he says, I saw Don Bruno passing by and right behind him,
He said there were these two men going after them, men I didn't recognize, in a black speedboat.
There were these scratches on the trees, these very specific marks.
The boat must have come crashing into the riverbank at speed,
and the propeller was still on, and so it sliced into the branches in the mud.
We found footprints.
After I found out that Bruno's boat had been ambushed, things moved very quickly.
A few hours later, I was in a different part of the jungle,
with a couple of military policemen and a group of indigenous guys,
including Bini Machis, when our radio crackled into life.