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Violent disputes over indigenous lands increase across Brazil

Indigenous Brazilian protests against government via AFP

SAO PAULO — Violent disputes over indigenous land have been growing across Brazil, sparking heightened militancy by native tribes angered by broken promises of compensation and slower government registrations. A report by the Indigenous Missionary Council (CIMI), cited by the Folha de Sao Paulo newspaper on Sunday, said the number…

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Work resumes at huge Amazon dam site

Amazon natives via AFP

RIO DE JANEIRO — Some 1,600 workers resumed work Thursday after 150 indigenous people agreed to end their three-week occupation of a construction site for a huge hydro-electric dam in the Brazilian Amazon. “The chiefs of several tribes have agreed and the others have followed,” said Cleanton Ribeiro, a spokesman…

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