not the motorcycle diaries

1519: map of Brazil issued by Portuguese explorers.

30 May 2008: “Members of an unknown Amazon Basin tribe and their dwellings are seen during a flight over the Brazilian state of Acre along the border with Peru.” (Sydney Morning Herald).*

* (29 May 2008: “Funai fotografa índios isolados na fronteira do Brasil com o Peru” (National Indigenous Peoples Foundation, the government agency for “protection and education of indigenous peoples”).)

É strano, e muito difícil, para imaginar que este occorendo na Prudente, um cidade do campo, muito pequeno e pacato.

Que triste.