Lúcio Flávio Pinto: The Brazilian reporter who wouldn’t be bought or silenced

Lúcio Flávio Pinto: The Brazilian reporter who wouldn’t be bought or silenced

Founder’s Briefs: An occasional series where Mongabay founder Rhett Ayers Butler shares analysis, perspectives and story summaries. In the tangled thickets of Brazil’s Amazon, a place known as much for its impenetrable forest as its opaque networks of corruption, Lúcio Flávio Pinto has spent nearly six decades cutting a solitary trail. For most of that time, he did so with little more than a pen, a dogged sense of duty, and a refusal to be bough…