Brazil Army Combats Amazon Death Squads
526451
BELEM, Brazil  - Brazil mobilized some 2,000  troops in the Amazon rain forest on Wednesday to curb death  squads blamed for the deaths of an American nun, a union leader  and two workers in land battles in the last four days.
312369
A Brazilian soldier with the UN peacekeeping force in Haiti was shot and wounded Saturday when peacekeepers and local police faced gunfire in a crackdown on armed gangs in the Haitian capital.
324408
BRASILIA, Brazil  - More than 150 Brazilians were   murdered each day last year on average, putting Brazil on a par   with some war zones in terms of its homicide rate, the Justice   Ministry said on Monday.
656198
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.
205411
The government of one of Brazil's Amazonian states plans to reforest areas of land cleared for pasture.
35061
Rescuers search for victims after a ship capsizes in the Amazon region of Brazil, killing at least 15 people.
601509
Rubber tappers,  fishermen and Indians in western Brazil have joined  environmental groups in battling a planned $9 billion  hydroelectric project that will flood one of the Amazon's main  tributaries.
669004
Brazil's policemen have a well-earned reputation for brutality and corruption.
236878
Brazil has called for more UN troops to be sent to Haiti to curb a wave of unrest in which more than 40 people have been killed in a fortnight.
576625
RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil  - Searchers found dozens of bodies at the Amazon site of Brazil's worst airplane disaster on Tuesday and started to fly remains to the capital as investigators tried to determine how two planes collided.
337175
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.
565229
Beginning Sunday, Brazil's air force will be allowed to shoot down small planes suspected of carrying drugs under a law meant to stem the flow of cocaine pouring into the country at clandestine landing strips in the vast Amazon rainforest.
20144
Just days after Brazil's deadliest plane crash, a radar outage over the Amazon spread the country's aviation crisis overseas and spawned ripple-effect delays at a half-dozen U.S. airports.
640762
Recent increases in defense spending by Brazil and Venezuela are attracting observers' attention.
735109
By Axel Bugge BRASILIA, Brazil  - Newly surfaced photographs ofa victim of Brazil's 1964-85 military rule have put thegovernment in a quandary -- how to avoid riling the armedforces while satisfying rights groups' demands for answersabout the country's "Dirty War."
541701
Beginning Sunday, Brazil's air force may shoot down small planes suspected of carrying drugs under a law meant to stem the flow of cocaine pouring into the country at clandestine landing strips in the vast Amazon rainforest.
162645
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.