Vagrant Killings Raise Fears of Brazil Death Squad
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SAO PAULO, Brazil  - The beating to death of four  vagrants and the battering of several others in downtown Sao  Paulo have raised suspicions of death squads as crime soars in  this vast South American city, officials said on Friday.
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Many Andar residents are anxious about security and resentful of the government and the police, whom they accused of preying on the people.
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RIO DE JANEIRO -- Days before Gov. Sergio Cabral took his oath of office this year, drug gangs in this city set fire to public buses and opened fire on police stations in what Brazil's president called the "most violent terrorist act I have ever seen in this country."
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SANTA BARBARA, Venezuela -- A whodunit involving two undercover Colombian soldiers whose bodies were found here in western Venezuela has heightened tensions between the neighboring countries and lifted the lid on the dirty little secrets of their border relations.
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BRASILIA, Brazil  - Newly surfaced photographs of  a victim of Brazil's 1964-85 military rule have put the  government in a quandary -- how to avoid riling the armed  forces while satisfying rights groups' demands for answers  about the country's "Dirty War."
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The reappearance of dictatorship-era documents relating to the treatment of political prisoners &#151; papers that a top government official said were destroyed decades ago &#151; has resurrected an issue many Brazilians would prefer to forget.
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Brazil coach Carlos Alberto  Parreira is more worried about playing rank outsiders Venezuela  than the likes of Germany or Argentina.
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Thousand of soldiers were deployed to a lawless Amazon rainforest region where an American nun was shot to death last weekend amid violence between peasants and loggers vying for the area's vast natural resource riches.
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Residents of crime-plagued Rio de Janeiro have a new kind of predator to worry about &#151; hawks.
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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."
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A Catholic aid agency  voices deep concern after a priest working on land  rights in Brazil gets death threats.
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RIO DE JANEIRO -- A wave of assaults on tourists in this seaside resort city has authorities scrambling to contain the violence as they prepare for the annual high travel summer season.
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Four homeless men were bludgeoned to death and six were in critical condition on Friday following early morning attacks by unknown assailants in downtown streets of Sao Paulo, a police spokesman said.
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A US Catholic missionary and human rights worker is shot dead in the Brazilian Amazon after receiving death threats.
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Brazilian sports officials blamed inadequate security for a defrocked priest&#39;s bizarre attack on the Olympic marathon leader, and said yesterday they will appeal
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Police in Brazil are investigating the murder of one of the country's leading experts on indigenous Indians.
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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.