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Two-Thirds of Human Rights Defenders Killed in 2017 Were From Latin America: Report | News | teleSUR English: The group published the data in its annual Human Rights Defenders at Risk report.
Per the report, 80 percent of worldwide killings took place in four countries: Brazil, Colombia, Mexico and the Philippines.
In Latin America, 156 human rights defenders were killed in Brazil and Colombia alone.
"The violence against human rights defenders has intensified in regions of political and economic crisis: Venezuela, Brazil, Guatemala, Paraguay, Honduras and Argentina," researchers said in their report.
A majority of the Latin American countries with the highest killings are ruled by governments favorable to the United States.
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