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COP26: Indigenous Amazon activist 'got death threats' after speech
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"I think I said the right words because they attacked me."
This is how Txai Suruí feels looking back on the speech she made to open the United Nations climate change conference, COP26.
As a climate activist who grew up as part of an indigenous community in the Amazon rainforest, she spoke to world leaders about the direct impacts of climate change that her tribe is already experiencing.
But after the speech she was publicly criticised by Brazilian President Jair Bolsanaro, for "attacking Brazil".
This prompted many people to send her abuse on social media.
More:
https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-latin-america-59166607