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Turtles give wings to abandoned indigenous women in the Peruvian Amazon

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Datem del Marañón (Peru), Sep 14 (EFE) (Camera: Carla Samon) .- When her husband sentenced her to singleness for not being able to have children, Balbina Sundi Akumbari, from the Kandozi people, found her best ally in the Taricaya turtles to assert herself and help other women like her who resist the scourge of machismo so deeply rooted in the remote community where she lives, deep in the Peruvian Amazon.FOOTAGE OF THE SITUATION OF NATIVE WOMEN IN THE PERUVIAN AMAZON

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