# encoding in UTF-8
import json

data = json.loads("""
{
  "friends": [
       {
           "name": "Marco Aur\u00c3\u00a9lio Ferreira",
           "timestamp": 1617453534
        },
        {
           "name": "Tha\u00c3\u00ads Everton D. Soares Papaleo",
           "timestamp": 1617420287
        }
    ]
 }
""")

data = (data['friends'])
for n in data:
    nome = n['name'].encode("latin1").decode("utf-8")
    print(nome)