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...scene: a Brazilian government outpost called Abunari Two, on the northern fringes of the Amazon Basin. There, recently, 27 Indians of the Waimiri and Atroari tribes emerged from the jungle. Ostensibly, they came to trade for food and medicine with Gilberto Pinto Figueiredo, an official of FUNAI, the government-run National Indian Foundation, but they were clearly angry about the building of new roads through their tribal lands. They came equipped with bows and arrows decorated with red macaw feathers, a symbol of war. Even after a supply of food and gifts arrived by plane, they remained dissatisfied and agitated...
...past three months, Brazilian Indians have killed twelve people in this and other assaults against representatives of FUNAI, an agency that was set up to protect the country's vanishing tribes. The attacks mark a desperate new stage in a struggle that began more than 300 years ago, when the Indians first resisted white men who were looking for gold, rubber and slaves in Brazil's vast interior. Just since the turn of this century, more than 96 tribes have disappeared in the face of white expansion; the country's Indian population, which may once have been...
Last Refuge. Unfortunately, the Amazon Basin is the last refuge for tribes like the Waimiri and Atroari. "The Indians resent the speed and aggressiveness with which the road is being built," says João Americo Peret, a Brazilian Indian expert. "But since they can't confront the road-building machines, they take it out on the FUNAI people...
...such countries as Argentina and Brazil had a history of involvement in politics at the time of their coups, the Chilean military had abstained from political activity for 46 years. And whereas the previous experience with government had produced a certain level of political sophistication among Argentine and Brazilian military leaders, in Chile the military junta, on September 11, found itself in an unfamiliar position. Insulated from politics for decades, it had developed a parochial mentality comprised of intense anti-Marxism, a distrust of partisan politics, a craving for order and unity, and a puritanical morality. Reeling on the giddy...
...shackled to the door again, but on Thursday the questioning was accompanied by only a little torture. And then came help. U.S. Consul Richard Brown in Recife was finally given permission to see me. My friends had alerted him to my disappearance. It took him three days to get Brazilian authorities to honor an international agreement granting foreigners the right to see diplomatic representatives of their country. On Friday Ambassador John H. Crimmins officially protested my treatment to the Brazilian Foreign Office in Brasilia. After five more days, Brown managed to get Colonel Meziat to provide a mattress...