Mato Grosso

Five engineers held by hundreds of Brazilian tribespeople who seized a hydroelectric dam project in a protest have been released, but the facility remained occupied, media reported Tuesday.

Protesting Indians release workers at construction site of hydroelectric plant in Amazon. Protesters on Monday released workers from the construction site of an Amazon hydroelectric plant that Indians say is being built on an ancient burial ground.

BRASILIA (Reuters) - Brazilian native Indians on Sunday took 100 workers hostage at the construction site of a hydroelectric plant in the southern Amazon region, local media reported.

Brazil government wants to restrict foreign ownership of farm lands. Brazil's government wants to tighten restrictions on foreign ownership of farm lands in Latin America's biggest country, the Agrarian Development Ministry said Tuesday.

Brazilian police Friday arrested 70 people and were seeking another 21 for allegedly illegally deforesting protected areas of the Amazon jungle.

MARLBOROUGH - In the grief-stricken search for answers, one thing was clear: Gustavo Rezende had hit a wall. He had dreamed of joining the military, getting a driver's license, and becoming an American citizen. But the 19-year-old Brazil native was in the country illegally, a hard fact that put his dreams out of reach. At Marlborough High School, he was popular, a talented artist. Then his friends went off to college and Rezende stayed behind, stocking bottles of soda at a sports complex. He got into trouble with the law and feared deportation to a country he hardly knew. On March 4, weeks before Rezende's 20th birthday, police found him hanging from a tree in the woods near his house, next to Marlborough District Court. The stunning public act, within sight of court clerks and commuters, has shaken a community and triggered an anguished cry for help from his family and friends, who believe Rezende killed himself in despair over his immigration status. ``He always said, `I've been here

Brazil's dream capital 50 years later embodies country's hopes, obstacles. Renato de Jesus gives a tour of the trash-strewn lot where he has lived all his life, just yards (meters) from Brasilia's gleaming federal government promenade built 50 years ago as an emblem of the South American country's promise.

SORRISO, Brazil (Reuters) - Talk of ecological diversity or saving rare species does not fly very far in Mato Grosso.

Nuns face guns, impunity in battle to protect poor farmers, stop land grabs in Brazil's Amazon. The gunmen arrived in the Amazon dusk, circling the house where Sister Leonora was hiding, rifles and pistols poking out the windows of three muddy pickup trucks.

To save Amazon rainforest, expert pushes smarter farming to replace slash-and-burn. Walking on a dusty field of cut rice that was once rainforest, researcher Flavio Wruck explains how farming, the Amazon's biggest killer, can be turned into its best defender.

Jobs, economics complicate Brazil's crackdown on Amazon destruction. Drawing his .40-caliber pistol, Severiano Pontes dashes across the steaming, muddy jungle floor, a hunch telling him what he would find around a bend.

Jobs, economics complicate Brazil's crackdown on Amazon destruction. Drawing his .40-caliber pistol, Severiano Pontes dashes across the steaming, muddy jungle floor, a hunch telling him what he would find around a bend.

Jobs, economics complicate Brazil's crackdown on Amazon destruction. Drawing his .40-caliber pistol, Severiano Pontes dashes across the steaming, muddy jungle floor, a hunch telling him what he would find around a bend.

A massive blackout plunged tens of millions in Brazil's largest cities into darkness, sparking major disruptions, fears of crime and energy supply concerns Wednesday for the newly named Olympic hosts.

A massive blackout plunged tens of millions in Brazil's largest cities into darkness, sparking major disruptions, fears of crime and energy supply concerns Wednesday for the newly named Olympic hosts.

A blackout across much of southern Brazil overnight plunged tens of millions of residents in the country's biggest cities into a state of anxiety and raised questions Wednesday over national energy security.

A blackout across much of southern Brazil overnight plunged tens of millions of residents in the country's biggest cities into a state of anxiety and raised questions Wednesday over national energy security.

French anthropologist Claude Levi-Strauss, who helped shape Western thinking about human civilisation, has died at the age of 100, his publisher and colleagues said.

PARIS (Reuters) - French intellectual Claude Levi-Strauss, the founder of structural anthropology, has died at the age of 100, his publishing house Plon said on Tuesday.

French anthropologist Claude Levi-Strauss, who helped shape Western thinking about human civilisation, has died at the age of 100, his publisher and colleagues said Tuesday.