"Rancher gets 30 years in death of US nun" by Associated Press | April 14, 2010
Yes, forget about the record flood and landslide.
RIO DE JANEIRO — A Brazilian rancher was sentenced to 30 years for ordering the murder of US nun and Amazon defender Dorothy Stang, making him the only “mastermind’’ behind any of the hundreds of activists killed in the past two decades currently in jail.
After 15 hours of deliberation, jurors in the jungle city of Belem found late Monday that Vitalmiro Moura engineered the killing of Stang, 73, in 2005 because she blocked him and another rancher from taking over land the government gave to farmers. Moura denied any involvement in the killing and said he didn’t know the victim.
The case was viewed as a test of Brazil’s ability to battle the nearly absolute impunity that reigns in the Amazon, whether it be the murder of activists or illegal deforestation.
Why do they have to prove anything to anybody?
I'm not trying to be callous; however, I live in a country that sanctions torture, black hole sites, floating dungeons in international waters, and all the rest of the mass-murdering global empire -- which, by the way, is at the BOTTOM of THIS, too!!!!
Not that the newspaper is going to tell you that, but just what do you think the CIA has been up to in Latin America since well, 1947 I guess.
More than 1,200 people have been killed in the past two decades in land conflicts across Brazil, mostly in the Amazon, according to Catholic Land Pastoral, a watchdog group.
Yet while 80 gunmen — who were paid by powerful ranchers to kill activists, landless farmers, and others defending the rights of the poor — are behind bars, none of the so-called masterminds of the crimes, aside from Moura, is in jail, Catholic Land Pastoral said.
Sort of smelling the interlocutors of the CIA, aren't you?
And there go the Catholics again!
No wonder the Pope is being hammered in the paper.
The sentence was celebrated by Stang’s relatives, supporters, and activists, who had camped and prayed outside the court during the deliberations. “Justice has been made. My sister would be very happy,’’ David Stang said from Belem. “She believed in the Brazilian judicial system.’’
I don't know.
Justice will be done when the whole system that led to this assassination of a nun is dismantled and moneyed interests leave local people alone to realize their own dreams and resources.
And that means the AmeriKan government, its corporate controllers, and its covert assassination apparatus known as CIA is dismantled, folks.
I don't know what other peaceful resolution is possible.
A native of Dayton, Ohio, and a naturalized Brazilian citizen, Dorothy Stang worked for three decades to preserve the rain forest and defend land rights.
Wow, she went the other way, 'eh?
Yeah, Catholics are DANGEROUS, aren't they -- especially 73-year-old nuns!
Moura was previously convicted of Stang’s murder and then acquitted in an automatic retrial. That decision was overturned last year on a technicality.
Gee, sounds like our courts, 'eh, America?
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So did Brazil pass the test?
Operation Condor
Yup, Kissinger and Condor!!
Also see: Flood of News From Brazil
Am I being well served by New England's largest daily, dear readers?
Am I?
