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Brazilian Anti-Deforestation Activist Assassinated

HeadlineOct 26, 2011

In news from South America, another Brazilian activist who campaigned against illegal deforestation of the Amazon has been assassinated. João Chupel Primo, 55 years old, was killed on Saturday. He is the eighth environmentalist farmer to be killed since May in the Amazon.

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