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		</div><p>Chief Raoni Metuktire, the ethnic Kayapo leader who became a symbol of the fight for Indigenous rights and the preservation of the Amazon rainforest in Brazil, has recovered from an illness after being in hospital for 10 days, a doctor said.</p>
<p>Raoni had been taken to a private hospital in Sinop, a city in Mato Grosso state in western Brazil, from his home in the Xingu Indigenous reservation after suffering diarrhoea and dehydration, said his great-nephew, Patxon Metuktire.</p>
<p>Raoni had tested negative for the new coronavirus.</p>
<p>The Kayapo ethnic leader, thought to be around 90 years old, said at a press conference: “Now I’m healed. I wanted to tell you that disease comes at any time.</p>
<p>“Think about it and love and respect each other because we don’t know tomorrow. The disease does not warn when it comes.”</p>
<p>Raoni “is still a little weak, but already strong enough to continue to lead his people”, said Dr Douglas Yanai.</p>
<p>He added that Raoni had been formally discharged but would leave the hospital later on Saturday while logistics for his trip home are arranged.</p>
<p>According to the doctor, Raoni was suffering low blood pressure and anaemia.</p>
<p>He had ulcers and had to undergo two blood transfusions. The Indigenous leader was also very upset by the recent death of his wife.</p>
<p>Raoni has campaigned for decades for the protection of Indigenous territories in the Amazon and for the rainforest itself.</p>
<p>A 1978 documentary, Raoni: The Fight For The Amazon, helped make him famous, as did a 1989 tour with the musician Sting.</p>
<p>He has been an outspoken critic of Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro and visited European leaders last year to denounce the leader’s calls for developing Indigenous lands in the rainforest.</p>
<p>Mr Bolsonaro, who has rejected a call by French president Emmanuel Macron to meet Raoni, has said developing land is key to Brazil’s economic prosperity.</p>
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