03.09.2015 - 16:18 [ Yahoo! ]

Tensions mount over death of Brazil indigenous leader

Tensions over land ownership are soaring between Brazil‘s indigenous Guarani people and ranchers after the shooting of a Guarani leader, activists said Wednesday. In Antonio Joao, in Mato Grosso do Sul state, „the situation is very tense,“ said Cleber Buzatto, with the Indigenous Missionary Council, a Catholic Church group defending indigenous communities‘ rights.