Environment of Brazil

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This paper presents an overview of the heated land ownership issues in Brazil. The paper considers the murder of American Catholic nun and activist, Dorothy Stang back in February of 2005 and what it means in light of all these issues. The paper considers political, historical and social aspects of the land ownership problem as well as its impact on the Amazon forest in Brazil.

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"The week before Stang's murder, the missionary had asked for protection from Nilmario Mranda, the government's Human Rights Secretary. In a statement, Miranda, "likened Stang to Chico Mendes, the rubber-tapper and environmental and social activist whose December 1988 murder in the Amazon jungle also caused a national and international outcry." According to CPT, which has been documenting the violence in the Brazilian countryside since the 1980's, Para is the Brazilian state with the largest number of murders due to conflicts over land. CPT reports that thirty-three of the seventy-three killings of this kind committed in 2003 occurred in Para and that during previous years, the northern state regularly accounted for more than half of the murders."

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