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Alex Cuadros

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@ProPublica climate reporter, author of BRAZILLIONAIRES and WHEN WE SOLD GOD'S EYE. Former Bloomberg staffer and I've also written for @NYTmag, @Harpers, etc.

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I'm the author of "Brazillionaires," which was a Financial Times best book of 2016 and a New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice. I've also written for Bloomberg Businessweek, The New Yorker, The Washington Post, The Atlantic, The Awl, The Baffler, and Lapham's Quarterly (among others), and my reporting has taken me to Brazil, Colombia, Iraq, Mexico, and Venezuela. I live in Brooklyn.

My website: alexcuadros.com

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A cold call to Donald Trump revealed what matters in DC

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By Alex Cuadros Verified
| Salon Verified
My family’s morning routine is usually pretty ordinary. We wake up early, drink some coffee and get our 1-year-old ready for daycare. But one Wednesday morning last month, I found myself uttering to my wife a sentence that sounded frankly surreal to both of us: “Just to let you know, I’m about to call Trump.” Then, hoping to avoid any urgent diaper events, I ducked into the next room and dialed up the president. I’d been trying to reach President Donald Trump for a few days.
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I Cold-Called President Trump. Here’s What He Told Me About an Oil Tycoon and Major Donor.

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By Alex Cuadros Verified
| Flipboard
World News 1 hour ago Trump’s Iran Debacle Could Be a Gift for America The New York Times - Robert Malley, Stephen Wertheim • 1h With Iran, Donald Trump has done the impossible once more. In attacking that country in February, he went where his predecessors never dared, joining with Israel in a bid to overthrow or incapacitate the regime in Tehran.
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Trump plans to protect methane-leaking stripper wells. This billionaire donor will benefit

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By Alex Cuadros Verified
| kanw.org
This story was originally published by ProPublica. It was before dawn on a Friday in January when a Gulfstream G600 with the burnt-orange Texas Longhorns logo on its tail landed at Dulles airport outside Washington, D.C. Its owner, a little-known oil billionaire named Jeffery Hildebrand, had been summoned to the White House.
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