Word: gumercindo
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Dates: during 1992-1992
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Many activists contend that they are on freely circulating "hit lists." Gumercindo Rodrigues, an adviser to Mendes' National Council of Rubber Tappers, is recovering from two gunshot wounds he suffered last September. Gumercindo was shot on a main street in Rio Branco, the Acre state capital. One shot in the back at point-blank range came from a police officer. Press accounts have also implicated Camilo Yunes Junior, a lumber baron, in the shooting. Yunes denies any involvement. No charges have been filed in what the courts have dismissed as a crime of passion because Gumercindo was involved with...
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