Nelson Bastos wasn’t on the oil company’s programme. But he took the mic anyway.
After a lifetime of studying the play of wind and tide in a stretch of ocean known as the Foz do Amazonas — Portuguese for “Mouth of the Amazon” — the 58-year-old fisherman wasn’t buying the corporate line.
“The people who fish out there, in the Foz do Amazonas, know there’s a wind called the Geral,” Bastos told families and fishermen gathered on a humid morning last November at the hut housing the local fishing association.
