Fabiano Maisonnave - The Amazon - Folha de São Paulo

<p>Deep in the jungle, Fabiano Maisonnave finds amazing stories to tell. He is the only correspondent for a major Brazilian newspaper to be based in the Amazon rainforest region. Long before he reported on remote Amazon tribes, Fabiano tells us about leaving his first assignment in farm country over death threats. He then sets off on a long period as a foreign correspondent, covering Latin America from all over the region, and later becoming Folha’s correspondent in Beijing. </p> <p>Countries featured: Brazil, Venezuela, Honduras, China</p> <p>Publications featured: Folha de S.Paulo</p> <p>Fabiano discusses growing up in a closed community around a megadam project during the Brazilian dictatorship (7:45), his first job digging into corruption in Brazil’s farm country and being run out of town (15:10), reporting around Latin America, including a coup in Honduras that left him in close quarters with the ousted president (22:21), moving to China to report on everything from fake shoes to geopolitics (26:45), returning to Brazil to report on the Amazon (33:19), the story that got away about a political murder in the early 2000s (38:56), rooting out a corrupt businessman attempting to bribe indigenous to mine their territory (43:55), dangers and challenges of reporting in the rainforest and living in Manaus (49:09) and finally the lightning round (59:38). </p> <p> </p> <p>Here are links to some of the things we talked about:</p> <p>Jake’s story on the Brazilian military in the Amazon - <a href='https://reut.rs/3w0b0Se'>https://reut.rs/3w0b0Se</a></p> <p>Fabiano’s story on traditional runaway slave communities (English) - <a href='https://bit.ly/3tZkV8Y'>https://bit.ly/3tZkV8Y</a></p> <p>Fabiano’s english language work on Climate Home - <a href='https://bit.ly/3cqKSbg'>https://bit.ly/3cqKSbg</a></p> <p>His story on a polluted waterfall (Portuguese) - <a href='https://bit.ly/3cqftpy'>https://bit.ly/3cqftpy</a></p> <p>Fabiano’s story on Chinese knockoff shoes (Portuguese) - <a href='https://bit.ly/3lS