Lúcio Flávio Pinto

Lúcio Flávio de Faria Pinto (born c. 1950)

In 2005, he won an International Press Freedom Award from the Committee to Protect Journalists, a US-based NGO. In 2008, the Los Angeles Times described him as having the reputation of "an authoritative, stubbornly independent journalist who doesn't shrink from confronting some of Brazil's most potent interests".

He spent the first half of his journalism career with the media company O Liberal, whose founder, Romulo Maiorana, was one of his best friends.

After leaving O Liberal, Pinto founded the bimonthly, 12-page independent magazine Jornal Pessoal. Published in a newsletter format with a subscription of 2,000, the magazine emulates I. F. Stone's Weekly, the 1960s self-published newsletter by US journalist I. F. Stone. Pinto refuses to accept advertising for the magazine, stating that it would compromise the magazine's independence. Because of the number of lawsuits pending against him, he declined to travel to New York City to receive the award in person, fearing a local judge would take the opportunity to jail him for missing a court date.

Books Amazônia, o anteato da destruição ("Amazonia: Before the Act of Destruction") Amazônia: no rastro do saque ("Amazonia: The Tracks of Looting") Carajás, o ataque ao coração da Amazônia ("Carajas: Attack at the Heart of the Amazon") Jari: toda a verdade sobre o projeto de Ludwig ("Jari: The Whole Truth About the Ludwig Project") Amazônia, a fronteira do caos ("Amazonia: The Frontier of Chaos") Amazônia, o século perdido ("Amazonia: The Forgotten Century") Internacionalização da Amazônia ("The Internationalization of the Amazon") Hidrelétricas na Amazônia ("Hydroelectric Dams in the Amazon") CVRD: a sigla do enclave na Amazônia Guerra amazônica ("Amazonian War") O jornalismo na linha de tiro ("Journalism on the Front Line") Contra o poder ("Against Power")