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2021-05-20 06:35:41 GMT2021-05-20 14:35:41(Beijing Time) Xinhua English
RIO DE JANEIRO, May 19 (Xinhua) Hi, dude! Welcome to my video! Every Tuesday, Lucas Mesquita Teixeira greets his followers on YouTube, where he has launched a channel teaching Mandarin since June last year.
Still a student in the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, 21-year-old Lucas has learned Mandarin for six years. From a learner to a teacher, he is proud of his experience in learning Mandarin as an adult, and deep in heart he dreams bigger than becoming a popular language teacher on YouTube. Chinese language and culture changed my life, and I hope Brazilian kids like me who spend their childhood in poverty can change their destinies through learning Chinese, he told Xinhua.
Lima, Peru – Maria Elena Carbajal still vividly recalls the doctor’s chilling response when, from her hospital bed, she asked repeatedly to see her newborn son, Francisco. “Once you have the procedure, you can see him,” the mother of four said the doctor told her, before asking: “You’re thinking of having more kids, like guinea pigs?”
It was September 18, 1996, at Maria Auxiliadora Hospital in the Peruvian capital, Lima – and Carbajal, then 26, had given birth around 4am. Within three hours, she had been sterilised.
Now a quarter of a century later, she is one of thousands of Peruvian women hoping to finally receive justice for one of the most notorious cases of mass forced sterilisations in history.