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Dec 2013
8m 55s

Murder in the Amazon

Bbc World Service
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In December 1988 the Brazilian environmental campaigner, Chico Mendes, was shot dead by cattle ranchers. The 44-year-old leader of the rubber tappers union had become a powerful symbol of the struggle to save the Amazon. We hear from those closest to Mendes at the time of his death.

(Photo: Chico Mendes and his family. Credit: Str/AFP/Getty Images)

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