MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE
by Michael Wolraich
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Killings of Brazil's indigenous Indians highlight tensions of land disputes
By artappraiser on Thu, 08/08/2013 - 3:49pm |Brazilian government accused of pandering to agro-business lobby rather than reallocating areas to indigenous peoples
By Jonathan Watts, The Guardian, August 8, 2013
Celso Rodrigues was walking by a river near his home in Mato Grosso do Sul, when he was ambushed by a gunman in a balaclava, shot with a pistol and then finished off with a rifle.
It might have been just another killing in Brazil, which has one of the world's highest murder rates. But Rodrigues's case has attracted international attention because he was a member of the Guarani ethnic group, which is at the heart of a fierce national dispute over indigenous rights.
In recent months, the national guard has been dispatched, a senior official has resigned and protests from both sides – tribes and landowners – have moved closer to the office of President Dilma Rousseff. [....]
URL:
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/aug/08/brazil-land-indigenous-people-killings
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