Yara Yavelberg

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Yara Yavelberg (1943 - 1971) was born in São Paulo. She was a Brazilian psychologist and university lecturer, who was killed by the repressive machine of the Brazilian military dictatorship in Salvador, Bahia. She was initially a passive supported of the resistance movement but eventually became a militant of the armed resistance group MR-8. She was the partner of Carlos Lamarca, a Brazilian Army officer who deserted and became one of the most important leaders of the guerrilla movement that opposed the dictatorship. With the collapse of the guerrilla movement, Yavelbeg and Lamarca fled to Bahia where they were tracked down and murdered.