Good morning. One week after Dom Phillips and Bruno Pereira went missing in the Amazon, the Brazilian embassy in London told Phillips’ family that two bodies had been found yesterday, and president Jair Bolsonaro said “something wicked” had been done to them – only to be apparently contradicted by the police. But there appeared little reason for optimism.
There has been alarm over the fate of Phillips, a British journalist who was a frequent contributor to the Guardian, and Pereira, a respected advocate for the rights of Brazil’s Indigenous peoples, since their disappearance. What hopes there were for their safe return have faded in recent days.
