He Tracks Elusive Amazon Tribes, but Only From the Shadows.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/25/world/americas/jair-candor-amazon-tribes-indigenous.html

Interesting people generate interesting stories.

The Saturday Profile was always one of the most captivating sections of the New York Times. The idea of sharing stories of somewhat ordinary people around the whole world is a really good concept, it shows us that everyone has something newsworthy, it helps to raise awareness over a variety of different situations, and it tackles real people, not some weird overblown celebrity.

That being said, I choose the most recent Saturday Profile, which, coincidentally of not, was about a Brazilian. It was written by Jack Nicas and Manuela Andreoni, both of whom are stationed in Brazil.

The article talks about Jair Candor, a 63-year-old who tracks isolated indigenous tribes within the Amazon Forest, in an attempt to preserve and protect them.  It then proceeds to explain for how long Candor has been working on this, and all the difficulties and dangers he faces within his job.

              It does a good job explaining what he does, and the dangers he goes up against, but I feel like it fails to convince the reader on how truly important his job really is, they focus a bit too much what he’s doing it but forget to go over on why he’s doing it, and why is it so relevant.  If the authors were able to convey this a little bit better, I would have no complaints about the article, but as it is, it remains a really good Saturday Profile which brings awareness to one of Brazil’s oldest problems, that of the preservation and isolation of indigenous tribes.