Brazil's Amazon chief Raoni is hospitalized


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  • Sunday, 19 Jul 2020

FILE PHOTO: Brazil's indigenous chief Raoni Metuktire looks on before meeting with politicians to discuss the environmental situation in the Amazon and a protest against the government of Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro at the National Congress in Brasilia, Brazil September 25, 2019.REUTERS/Adriano Machado

SAO PAULO (Reuters) - Brazil's top indigenous chief Raoni Metuktire has been hospitalized with digestive bleeding, according to a post on the Facebook page of Raoni's institute.

The 90-year-old Amazon icon is in a hospital in the city of Sinop, in Brazil's central state of Mato Grosso.

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