since it has ALWAYS been the practise to bury information concerning the atrocities which are being committed by the Colombian military and its adjunct, proven by testimony after testimony in court, the narcotrafficking paramilitary which regroups under different names, and as human rights groups ALL report, is responsible for the "lion's share" of massacres, assassinations, narcotrafficking in Colombia.
The people living on farms are visited by paras who demand their land is turned over to them for a dollar or two, and when they resist, they are informed the paras will take up the issue with their widows. They are driven off their own property, live without their homes again, join the multitude of homeless people in the world's SECOND largest humananitarian crisis, second only to Sudan.
The U.S. corporate media will NEVER discuss this so the very taxpayers who are pouring out their hard-earned salaries to the U.S. government are supporting governments like this with absolutely no knowledge whatsoever unless they read a lot, research, keep their eyes open.
We are blindly lead into supporting cold-blooded predators, and financing their cruelty, imperiously denied the truth by our country's "news" organizations as if we have no natural right to know what's happening in our only world.
Land was also the issue in this murder. The Brazilian government had set aside a sector for the very poor to use for their own livelihoods, and Vitalmiro Moura believed he would just appropriate it all for himself, and drive the poor people away. Dorothy Stang made countless trips to government offices securing the rights of the people and he exploded in rage, deciding just killing her would get rid of the question of just who is going to use that land.
Vitalmiro Bastos de Moura, also known as "Bida," escaped justice a long time, had his small town celebrating him with parades, banners festooning the buildings and cars on the street, bought the good will and support of his neighbors, even creating his own website to host a flood of well-wishing messages from friends and neighbors, with selected photos showing him, his wife, children, expensive home, trying to establish the difference between him, a prosperous rancher, and a paltry "rabble-rousing" busybody like Dorothy Stang.
Here's the webiste in Portuguese constructed for his cohort, the other rancher, Regivaldo Galvao, who has not been seen as the force behind the assassination to the same degree, but very involved, at any rate. He hasn't been tried, yet:
http://www.regivaldoinocente.com.br.nyud.net:8090/figuras/TOP1.jpghttp://www.regivaldoinocente.com.br/
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