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‘My People Are Dying’: AIDS Imperils an Ancient Culture

Rafael Pequeño, left, a nurse who rides from settlement to settlement searching for AIDS patients, talks with Tiburcia Sakobara, right, a teacher, at the schoolhouse in Jeukubaka, Venezuela, Dec. 19, 2018. The area has been hit hard by AIDS. The disease is spreading rapidly through the indigenous Warao people of the Orinoco Delta, as government programs collapse. (Meridith Kohut/The New York Times)