Episode #219: Alex Cuadros

In Episode #219, journalist and author Alex Cuadros joins Osi to discuss the remarkable story of the Cinta Larga, an Amazonian tribe that remained isolated from the Western world until the 1960s and later became involved in operating an illegal diamond mine in the 2000s—based on six years of immersive reporting and research.Alex Cuadros is the author ofWhen We Sold God's Eye, published in December 2024, and Brazillionaires, which was recognized as a Financial Times Best Book of 2016 and a New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice. A former Bloomberg reporter, his work has appeared inThe New York Times Magazine,The New Yorker,Harper's,The Atlantic, andThe Washington Post. His stories have been featured on Longform, and his article on the Amazon's ecological tipping point was included inThe Best American Science and Nature Writing 2024. Cuadros has received grants from the Pulitzer Center, the Fund for Investigative Journalism, and the Alicia Patterson Foundation.