the one who was involved in illegal destruction of the forest was also the one who isn't going to prison. Well, that sounds like the U.S., by god.

Here's an early story on their murder:

Amazon rainforest activist shot dead

José Cláudio Ribeiro da Silva fought against illegal loggers and had received death threats but was refused police protection

Tom Phillips in Rio de Janeiro
The Guardian, Tuesday 24 May 2011 14.59 EDT

Six months after predicting his own murder, a leading rainforest defender has reportedly been gunned down in the Brazilian Amazon. José Cláudio Ribeiro da Silva and his wife, Maria do Espírito Santo, are said to have been killed in an ambush near their home in Nova Ipixuna, in Pará state, about 37 miles from Marabá.

According to a local newspaper, Diário do Pará, the couple had not had police protection despite getting frequent death threats because of their battle against illegal loggers and ranchers.

On Tuesday there were conflicting reports from about whether the killing happened on Monday night or Tuesday morning. A police spokesperson said there were reports of a "double homicide" at the settlement called Maçaranduba 2.

In a speech at a TEDx event in Manaus, in November, Da Silva spoke of his fears that loggers would try to silence him. "I could be here today talking to you and in one month you will get the news that I disappeared. I will protect the forest at all costs. That is why I could get a bullet in my head at any moment … because I denounce the loggers and charcoal producers, and that is why they think I cannot exist. [People] ask me, 'are you afraid?' Yes, I'm a human being, of course I am afraid. But my fear does not silence me. As long as I have the strength to walk I will denounce all of those who damage the forest."

More:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/may/24/amazon-rainforest-activist-killed

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Maria do Espiritu Santo, Jose Claudio Ribeiro da Silva [/center]

What a completely unnecessary tragedy, sacrificing these two brave people to someone's greed. How can any one NOT hate a monster who will give money to people to go kill someone for him?

This happened in the same state as the muder, and the sacrifice to greed with the likewise courageous little old lady, the nun Dorothy Stang, who spent her life working for the same goals as the couple in the original article.

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Another brave human being
sacrificed to greed, Dorothy Stang[/center]
Thank you, Eugene, for this new information.