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Brazil to Arrest Rancher in Death of American Nun

HeadlineDec 29, 2008

In Brazil, there is a development in the murder case of Dorothy Stang, the American nun killed in 2005 for speaking out against logging in the Amazon rain forest. Prosecutors in Brazil said they plan to charge a rancher named Regivaldo Galvao after new questions about his involvement were raised in the documentary film They Killed Sister Dorothy. Stang spent thirty years in Brazil trying to prevent ranchers from taking the land of poor Amazon settlers.

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