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An Amazon Icon's Town Is a Shrine Frozen in Time

XAPURI, Brazil, Oct. 11 -- She remembers the spot in the hallway where her father said, "They shot me," then fell into the arms of his wife. She remembers, even though she was only 4 years old, how Chico Mendes tried to say her name but couldn't finish the words before the world's most famous rub...
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By Joshua Partlow

 
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