biography
pronunciation:
[mendez]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1944–88)
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| biography:
| Brazilian rubber tapper who organized resistance to the wholesale exploitation of the Amazon. He formed an alliance between the tappers and their former enemies, the Amazonian Indians, to fight against the deforesters. He was shot and killed in December 1988, but his work had attracted worldwide attention, and the fight against deforestation goes on. |
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