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Iquitos, Loreto, 23 July 1949
Every day Peruvian rural clinics were treating cases of injury or disease attributable to those living on Brazilian soil – on an equal basis with Peruvian nationals – because there was nothing to be had in their own country.
Iquitos, Loreto, 23 July 1949
Every day Peruvian rural clinics were treating cases of injury or disease attributable to those living on Brazilian soil – on an equal basis with Peruvian nationals – because there was nothing to be had in their own country.
Not to be obnoxiously contrarian, but this is patently untrue.
The Brazilian government spent significant resources on developing communities in the Amazon region, and did so years before Peru made any efforts in this region whatsoever. The Brazilian Navy operates six hospital ships on the Amazon - the Compaixão class - doing much the same sort of business the Peruvians do with the Pucalipa & Co... but in greater numbers, with larger onboard facilities, for multiple years now. The Brazilians also have a construction ship dedicated to work in this region, building such things as river navigational aids, without which all of the ships heading into Iquitos would find the route rather more dangerous than otherwise.
It's all well and good to trumpet the Peruvian successes in the Amazon basin, but it's wrong to believe the Brazilians have not been sitting by idly. It's far more likely, in view of more complete evidence, that the Brazilians established a standard that the Peruvians only recently respond to, rather than vice-versa.
This, of course, might just be Nabuco's perception of things from across the border in Peru, but it's a perception not based in reality. :)
Seriously, if Brazil has done these good deeds, I haven't seen much mention of them since taking charge of Peru.
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