Brazil army to curb Amazon unrest
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Brazil sends 2,000 soldiers to Para to quell unrest following the murder of US missionary Dorothy Stang.
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Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva offered to intercede in a political rift between Colombia and Venezuela during a meeting Wednesday near the Amazon River with his Colombian counterpart.
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Brazilian police seize a big load of illegally logged lumber as officials start new  moves to tackle Amazon deforestation.
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BRASILIA, Brazil  - Brazilian police searched  Amazon jungle on Sunday for suspected killers of a 74-year-old  American nun gunned down after defending peasant farmers in  conflicts with loggers and ranchers.
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BRASILIA, Dec. 4 -- Brazil created the world's largest tropical rain forest preserve Monday in a section of the Amazon scarred by illegal logging and decades of violence between loggers, ranchers, conservationists and land rights activists.
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The government of one of Brazil's Amazonian states plans to reforest areas of land cleared for pasture.
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By ALAN CLENDENNING SAO PAULO, Brazil - A Brazilian Indian tribe is linking up with Google Earth to try to capture vivid images that could help stop loggers and miners from deforesting the jungle and digging for gold on its vast Amazon reservation.
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Irate Brazilian legislators told Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez on Friday to tone down his criticism of their Congress or he would endanger Venezuela's entry into the South American trade bloc Mercosur.
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RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil  - Brazilian authorities  sought ways to make Rio de Janiero tourist spots safer on  Tuesday amid sharp criticism of police after 24 muggings over a  holiday weekend.
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FOZ DO IGUACU, Brazil -- Geraldo Pereira has heard the rumors before, the whispers that cast a shadow on the reputation of this border town. So a bit of exasperation tinges his tone when the questions surface again.
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RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil  - Brazilian federal agents arrested 75 state police troopers on Friday for links with organized crime in Rio de Janeiro state's high-profile bid to get rid of corrupt cops.
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RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil  - The United Nations and  Brazil moved on Monday to break a months-long deadlock over  inspections to verify Latin America's largest nation is not  diverting enriched uranium for weapons.
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Five rural workers are shot dead in the most violent incident in Brazil's land row since the president took power.
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The rate of Amazon deforestation rose sharply during the last five months of 2007 as land was cleared for soy and cattle, prompting a top-level emergency meeting Thursday by government officials
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SAO PAULO, Brazil  - President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, facing a run-off in Brazil's election, is toning down his class-war rhetoric in a bid to woo the middle class and business votes that cost him a first-round victory.
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Around 12 percent of Brazil's Amazon charcoal works still uses slave labor despite a major crackdown since 2004, the regional industry watchdog, Citizens' Coal Institute (ICC), said.
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HELSINKI, Nov 5 (IPS) - In Brazil rubber tappers living in the Amazon  forest are locked in deadly conflicts with timber loggers and big  agribusiness companies, with up to ten activists killed every  year, NGOs working in the country say.