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Brazilian Missionaries Say Missing Teachers
Not Found Dead
SAO PAULO – The Catholic Church’s Indian
Missionary Council, or Cimi, issued a
statement Thursday retracting its earlier
report that two teachers abducted last week
were found dead in the southern Brazilian
state of Mato Grosso do Sul.
“The indigenous teachers Olindo Vera and
Genivaldo Vera remain missing and the
community continues to be afflicted by the
situations,” Cimi said.
The two teachers, who are related, were part
of a 25-person team that was teaching
Indians in the Pozi Kue Guarani Kaiwoa
Indian community to read and write.
Several gunmen appeared last Friday in the
village of Pirajui, where the teachers were
living, and took the Veras away, leaving
several other Indians wounded.
Ranchers and Indians have been engaged in a
battle for control of the land around the
village, which is near the border with
Paraguay.
Pirajui, which has a high infant mortality
rate due to malnutrition, is home to some
3,000 Indians, Cimi said. EFE
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