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 Brazilian military dictatorship^{[citation needed]} in Salvador, Bahia.

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She was initially a passive supporter of the resistance movement but eventually became a militant of the armed resistance group MR-8. She in a relationship with 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, Yavelberg and Lamarca fled to Bahia where they were tracked down by agents of the Brazilian military dictatorship and murdered.