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I have worked as a journalist, specialised in Latin America, development and the environment, for over 30 years. My first job, as a correspondent for The Financial Times in Brazil, was in the 1970s. Since then I have written for The Guardian, The Economist, The Times, The Observer, among others. I also worked for the BBC World Service radio for over a decade as a Latin America producer and commentator. In 1996 I won a gold award at the New York Radio Festival for a series of six programmes entitled Surviving the 20th Century and in 1997 I won a silver award at the New York Radio Festival in 1997 for a programme on the first contact with the outside world of the isolated Korubo Indians.!--

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P { margin-bottom: 0.08in }  for radio documentary on Korubo Indians I have published five books, including one on the Amazon (The Last Frontier - Fighting over Land in the Amazon, co-authored with Oriel Glock and published by Zed Books, 1985) and another on Brazil's landless movement (Cutting the Wire - the Story of the Landless Movement in Brazil, co-authored with Jan Rocha and published by Latin America Bureau, 2002). I was awarded a grant by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation for research and writing costs associated with this last book. The Portuguse version of this book, Rompendo a Cerca, was awarded the Vladmir Herzog Prize in 2004. I currently work as a part-time lecturer in journalism at City University in London.!--

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