Yahoo! News: Brazil

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• Brazilian demonstrations call for legal marijuana (AFP)
• Police, soldiers take over Rio slum (AFP)
• Brazilian police aid threatened farmers in Amazon (AP)
• Police raid Rio slum to secure Maracana stadium (AP)
• Brazil land barons seen behind Amazon killings (AFP)

Brazilian demonstrations call for legal marijuana (AFP) Posted: 19 Jun 2011 01:43 PM PDT AFP - Brazilian demonstrators held marches on the weekend calling for marijuana to be legalized after the country's top court ruled the gatherings could go ahead in the name of freedom of speech.

Police, soldiers take over Rio slum (AFP) Posted: 19 Jun 2011 01:17 PM PDT AFP - Hundreds of Brazilian police and soldiers backed by helicopters and armored vehicles swept in Sunday to take over a crime-ridden Rio slum as part of a pacification plan ahead of the football World Cup in 2014.

Brazilian police aid threatened farmers in Amazon (AP) Posted: 19 Jun 2011 09:32 AM PDT AP - Members of Brazil's national police force are protecting the families of small farmers receiving death threats after a series of killings apparently linked to the conflict over land and logging in the Amazon.

Police raid Rio slum to secure Maracana stadium (AP) Posted: 19 Jun 2011 09:09 AM PDT AP - Brazilian police are raiding another slum dominated by drug trafficking gangs in an ongoing program to bring peace to areas near Maracana stadium ahead of the 2014 World Cup and the 2016 Olympics.

Brazil land barons seen behind Amazon killings (AFP) Posted: 19 Jun 2011 01:43 AM PDT AFP - Nearly a month after the murder in Brazil's Amazon of an activist couple believed to have been threatened by land and logging barons, the investigation has gone nowhere.

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