Gifts at Changing The Present

BRAZIL: Swiss Firm Denies Responsibility in Killing of Rural Activist

by Fabiana Frayssinet , IPS Inter Press Service - Civil Society - The New Superpower on Nov 02, 2007

RIO DE JANEIRO, Nov 1 (IPS) - An attack by armed guards on a group of rural
activists occupying a Swiss-owned research farm in Brazil was the
latest incident in what pro-land reform movements call the
struggle against large landed estates wedded with multinational
agribusiness.


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