Andrew Downie profiles a friend and fellow journalist missing with Indigenous expert Bruno Pereira in Brazil’s remote west
Of course, I said, he’s a good pal of mine; we work together and often have dinner and drinks in São Paulo.
He thought he’d find peace in South America but instead found an impressive second act, as a foreign correspondent. He spent much of the 2010s writing about Brazil’s preparations for the 2014 World Cup and 2016 Olympics and in the years after, he shifted his focus to the environment. Dom loves nature; he would get up before dawn to go stand-up paddling and was always bringing friends together for weekend hikes in the mountains around Rio de Janeiro, where he moved in 2012.
He was by now setting out from Salvador, where he moved with his wife, Alessandra, in March 2020. He met Ale in Rio and it was love at first sight. A designer with an infectious smile, she loved to tell the story of how she couldn’t keep her hands off him the first night they met. They were perfectly matched.
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