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Para is one of Brazil's most resource-rich states, part of the country's immense Amazonian region. It is, however, also one of Brazil's most violent states. In 2008 alone, 13 people were assassinated because of their involvement in land reform issues. It is a disturbing counterindicator to all of the talk of Brazil being a 21st-century economic role model at the forefront of the newly developed coterie of nations. (Why Brazil is the one country that might avoid recession...
Experts on Brazil's rural violence said land ownership, along with the related issues of deforestation, logging, land grabbing and the slave labor sometimes used by powerful landowners, are the key factors in making Brazil's remote hinterlands such bloody places. "Economic interests are linked to land ownership and anyone opposed to them is in danger," says Julio Jacobo Waiselfisz, the author of "Brazil Violence Map," a government-sponsored study of the country's most violent areas...
Another issue is the agricultural frontier that is constantly encroaching on the Amazon. Brazil is an agricultural powerhouse and the world's biggest exporter or producer of sugar, soy beans, coffee, orange juice, beef and chicken. Thirst for land, produce, and the jobs, development and hard currency they brings are motivating factors behind the bloodshed, says Father Edilberto Senna, an activist priest in the north of Para. "Nothing changes," he says. "Brazil is proud that it was the 12th biggest economy in the world and that it is now the ninth biggest and will soon be the fifth biggest...
...Duke game was a terrific match for us,” Fish said. “They are playing without their No. 1 player, who is one of the best guys in the country from Brazil, and we are playing without our No. 2 and 3 players—Aba and Andy. They’re not big injuries, but we didn’t want to risk them here, because once you’re in the Ivies, that’s what we are really competing...
Many feel the Census also needs to fine-tune its idea of what is and isn't Hispanic. It tends to define Latin America as just the Spanish-speaking countries of the western hemisphere, when the term also encompasses Portuguese-speaking Brazil. It also includes Spaniards in the "Hispanic Origins" box, when in fact a Spaniard is a European, not a Hispanic...