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Land Activist, Descendant of Slaves Slain in Brazil's Amazon

A land rights activist and descendant of slaves has been shot dead in Brazil’s Amazon, authorities said, raising concerns of increased violence tied to property disputes. Nazildo dos Santos Brito, 33, was killed on Saturday night in the remote rural area of Tome-Açu, civil police in the northern Para state said in a statement. Brito was a quilombola, as slave descendants are known, and the subject of lawsuits filed by palm oil company Biopalma da Amazonia SA, a subsidiary of giant...

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