Brazilian Homesteaders Defend the Disappearing Flat-Topped Pine

Natives of the Santa Catarina backwoods are instinctively reserved and mistrustful, but Luiz Backes manages to be even more tight-lipped than most.

Minutes of silence pass, enough to honor all the martyrs to Brazil’s land struggles, as he rolls a cigarette and mulls his next utterance

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The World in Focus | Analysis column Thirty-five years after the US authorities officially launched the ten liberal principles that were to