The Brazilian university professor Danilo Neves Pereira, 35, was found dead in Buenos Aires, the capital of Argentina, on Monday the 20th, according to the Argentine newspaper La Nación. Pereira had been missing since Tuesday the 14th.
On that day, the Brazilian professor contacted friends and said he would meet someone, a Chilean he had met through a dating app, but stopped replying to messages. The last information he shared was the location with the address of the man, a place located in the center of the Argentine capital.
According to La Nación, on Wednesday the 15th, Pereira entered Ramos Mejía Hospital in Buenos Aires as an unidentified patient, “due to a psychotropic decompensation caused by cocaine use”. He is believed to have died on the 15th.
A friend of Danilo, heard by La Nación, said that he managed to locate and speak with the “young Chilean” with whom the missing professor had been before disappearing, and that he told him that the Brazilian left the scene after “a small argument, roughly at the same time as he sent the last message.”
Danilo had been living in Buenos Aires for five months. On Wednesday, friends posted on social media that Danilo had been missing for 24 hours and local authorities had already been alerted. By Sunday night, the 19th, there was still no information about the professor’s whereabouts.
Danilo taught English at the Language Center of the Federal University of Goiás for 12 years, and until shortly before moving to Buenos Aires, lived in Rio de Janeiro, where he was pursuing a PhD in applied linguistics. He was to defend his thesis in the coming weeks.
