Alex Cuadros
@alexcuadros
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@ProPublica climate reporter, author of BRAZILLIONAIRES and WHEN WE SOLD GOD'S EYE. I've also written for @BW, @NYTmag, @Harpers, etc.
San Francisco
Joined October 2011
My new book is out today! Hard to believe it all started seven years ago, when I visited a village on the banks of the Roosevelt River, in the southern reaches of the Amazon, home to an infamous Indigenous group known as the Cinta Larga.
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RT @tomphillipsin: Out now: the first episodes of our new six-part @guardian podcast series about Dom and Bruno. Please do listen and sha….
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Three years ago British journalist Dom Phillips and Brazilian indigenous defender Bruno Pereira vanished while on a reporting trip near Brazil’s remote Javari valley. The Guardian’s Latin America...
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I’ve admired @propublica .from afar for a very long time. Beyond thrilled to be joining the team
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I really enjoyed this conversation!.
🚨🚨NEW @RadioWarNerd — We've often talked about the dire choices a people face when aliens land in their world. As in, there are no good choices. This ep we talk to Alex Cuadros about his fascinating book on the Cinta Larga tribe's contact with Brazilians in the 1960s. link⬇️
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RT @MarkAmesExiled: Big recommend for Alex Caudros' book, When We Sold God's Eye: Diamonds, Murder and A Clash of Worlds in the Amazon. The….
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For anyone familiar with Brazil's recent economic history, Trump's Liberation Day is awfully reminiscent of Collor's "confisco" in 1990 -- when people's savings accounts were frozen to fight hyperinflation (this failed spectacularly, and traumatized the entire country).
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Thrilled to be in such excellent company as a finalist for the California Book Award!.
NONFICTION 1/2.When We Sold God’s Eye by @alexcuadros @HachetteUS .Twelve Trees by Daniel Lewis @simonschuster .On The Move by @AbrahmL @fsgbooks
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RT @PrincetonSPIADC: TODAY @ 5pm in DC Join us on Rooftop for "Books & Cocktails" Series: Author @alexcuadros & Bruna Santos of the @TheWil….
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RT @olibasciano: I reviewed @alexcuadros's anti-Rousseauean portrait of how one indigenous group entered the illegal diamond trade (for bet….
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Loved this @ArtReview_ review of my new book by @olibasciano, which cites my favorite Cinta Larga myth:
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RT @PrincetonSPIADC: BOOKS & COCKTAILS: April 1, 5pm: Join us on rooftop at @PrincetonSPIA DC Center w/ Brazil reporter @alexcuadros & Brun….
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RT @SamCowie84: I had an excellent chat with @alexcuadros about his great book "When We Sold God’s Eye: Diamonds, Murder, and a Clash of Wo….
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I love that The Guardian found a Brazilian-Brit to narrate this excerpt of my book
theguardian.com
In 2004, 29 people were killed by members of the Cinta Larga tribe in Brazil’s Amazon basin. The story shocked the country – but the truth of what happened is still being fought overBy Alex Cuadros....
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If you want to make your author friend’s day, always send them a photo when you spot their book in a bookstore. All the better if it’s somewhere unexpected. Truly never gets old
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Since this post is actually circulating a bit… I tell the story of how diamonds transformed an isolated Amazonian tribe in my new book:
amazon.com
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