Guarani Indians were among the first indigenous people to come into contact with European settlers in South America about 500 years ago, says Survival, which campaigns for the rights of tribal people.

In Brazil, the biofuel industry is booming. In 2013-2014, the country produced 7.3 billion gallons of ethanol from sugarcane — second only to the United States. Biofuel has been hailed as a type of ...

Murders tied to land disputes in rural Brazil, cumulative total of 383 since 2000. Amnesty International has called for an independent investigation of the murder of Nísio Gomes. A religious leader of ...

Located next to Sao Paulo, one of the world's biggest cities, the Guarani-Mbya tribe's reservation here was always easy to miss. Under a new law, it risks disappearing almost altogether. "People think ...

SAO PAULO (AP) — An indigenous leader who fought for the demarcation of his tribe’s ancestral lands has been stabbed to death, apparently by his father-in-law, police said Tuesday. Ambrosio Vilhalva, ...

SAO PAULO – An indigenous leader who fought for the demarcation of his tribe's ancestral lands has been stabbed to death, apparently by his father-in-law, police said Tuesday. Ambrosio Vilhalva, a ...

Thousands of Brazilian indigenous tribe members clashed with riot police Tuesday while demonstrating in the capital, Brasilia, for greater rights. Some of the indigenous people were armed with bows ...

SÃO PAULO—Brazil has ordered its Army to keep order in a town on the nation’s western soy-growing frontier after a land dispute turned deadly, the latest clash between farmers and indigenous people in ...

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