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A Brazilian rancher convicted of orchestrating the 2005 killing of an American nun has been acquitted after a witness contradicted his own earlier testimony and said there had not been an order to carry out the assassination. ... Jury dismisses rancher Vitalmiro "Bida"...
An Amazon farmer who received death threats after reporting illegal logging to authorities was shot to death as he left his house, Brazilian media reported Saturday. ... Emival Barbosa Machado, 50, was shot three times Friday in the eastern city of Tucurui, the Globo TV...
A shadowy consortium of ranchers and loggers has put a $500,000 price on the head of a bishop who defends poor settlers and Indians in the Amazon, a human rights group said Tuesday. ... The consortium has mapped out a detailed plan to kill Bishop Erwin Krautler, an...
More murder in the Amazon. ... Mahogany logs leaving Peru’s Madre de Dios region. Here’s a note with more detail on the situation in Madre de Dios, sent by Angelica Almeyda, a Ph. D. candidate in anthropology at Stanford University who knew Mr. Agapito. Peruvian Illegal...
