Brazil: Trial Of Indian Leader’s 'Assassins' Resumes

Brazil: Trial Of Indian Leader’s 'Assassins' Resumes   The trial of three men accused of murdering renowned Guarani Indian leader Marcos Veron is set to resume on Monday in São Paulo, Brazil.   Marcos Veron, an internationally respected Guarani Kaiowá leader, was beaten to death in 2003 by gunmen working for a local rancher, after he led his community’s reoccupation of their ancestral land.   Veron said about his land, ‘This here is my life, my soul. If ?you take me away from this land, you...

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