Brazilian tourist missing in Buenos Aires found dead after six days

Danilo Neves Pereira, a Brazilian teacher who had been missing in Buenos Aires since last Tuesday, was found dead on Monday. The 35-year-old man was the subject of an intensive search by the police after being reported missing on April 14. On Monday, his body was identified as that of a nameless patient at the Ramos Mejía Hospital in Buenos Aires City. According to the Buenos Aires City Police, Pereira “had been admitted to Ramos Mejía Hospital on Tuesday due to psychotropic decompensation.” Pereira, who had arrived in Argentina six months earlier, had last contacted his loved ones in the early hours of last Tuesday, sharing his location at the apartment where he had arranged to meet a young man he had met through a dating app. After that message, he stopped answering calls and messages, so a friend of his filed a missing persons report. In a statement, the Buenos Aires City Police said that the report was taken to the City Police’s Missing Persons Division to locate the individual, confirming that the man had been admitted to Ramos Mejía Hospital on Tuesday the 14th and “died in the early hours of the following day.” The Buenos Aires City Police also confirmed Pereira’s death was unrelated to any public safety issues and was instead the result of “a private matter.” Pereira taught English for 12 years after earning a degree from the Language Center of the Federal University of Goiás. He moved to Argentina to pursue a Ph.D. in applied linguistics. Previously, he had taught Portuguese at Emory University in the United States.