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- <text id=90TT3420>
- <title>
- Dec. 24, 1990: World Notes:Brazil
- </title>
- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
- Dec. 24, 1990 What Is Kuwait?
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- WORLD, Page 45
- World Notes
- BRAZIL
- The Plot Thickens
- </hdr>
- <body>
- <p> The stunning admission came as Darci Alves da Silva, 23, and
- his rancher father, Darly Alves da Silva, 54, went on trial in
- the Amazonian town of Xapuri last week for the murder of
- Francisco ("Chico") Mendes, the Brazilian rubber tapper and
- defender of the rain forests who became an environmental martyr
- after a single shotgun blast killed him in 1988. Asked by the
- judge if he "carried out" the murder, Darci answered, "I
- confirm I did."
- </p>
- <p> While defense lawyers were said to be shocked by Darci's
- confession, the prosecution remains convinced that it is part
- of a cover-up designed "to protect his father and others."
- Premeditated murder, the charge against both father and son,
- carries a sentence of 12 to 30 years.
- </p>
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- </body>
- </article>
- </text>
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