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Indians in Brazil Wither in an Epidemic of Suicide

25/08/1996

Autor: Diana Jean Schemo

Fonte: New York Times



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Over the last 10 years, some 200 Guarani Kaiowá are thought to have killed themselves in Mato Grosso do Sul (Brazil), near the border with Paraguay, and anthropologists say they are now seeing suicides among other tribes.
 

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