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Tension builds in Brazil after cattle ranch dispute

06/06/2013

The Brazilian government is to send 110 federal troops to the Brazilian farm state of Mato Grosso do Sul to try to prevent more violence between ranchers and native Indians. The government has been scrambling to avert violence since a man was shot dead last week when police evicted 200 Terena people from the disputed cattle ranch of a former...

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