Alessandra Sampaio preparing to visit remote area where husband and Indigenous expert Bruno Pereira were murdered last year
The widow of British journalist Dom Phillips has spoken of her desire to raise awareness of the urgent and complex crisis facing the Amazon as she prepared to visit the remote jungle region where he was murdered last year with the Indigenous expert Bruno Pereira.
“I’d tell him, “I’ll go, Dom, I’ll go!” Because, like many Brazilians, I haven’t been to any of the Amazon states.” “There’s great hope. I feel an atmosphere of optimism because there’s so much to rebuild,” Sampaio said, pointing to Lula’s decision to place an Indigenous woman in charge of the Indigenous protection agency, Funai, and create a ministry for Indigenous peoples.
Phillips, 57, and Pereira, 41, were gunned down last June while travelling down the Itaquaí river after a reporting trip for a book the British journalist was writing on the Amazon.
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