The Bishop, The Bullets & The Bodyguards

A motorcycle passes a mural of Christ on a wall in Altamira, an Amazonian frontier capital in the Brazilian state of Para. The town on the Trans-amazonian highway is a hotbed for illegal logging, labor, land-grabbing and human rights abuses as ranchers and loggers resort to extremes in their advance on the Amazon forest. Ever since the murder of 73-year-old American nun Dorothy Stang in February 2005, the Catholic Bishop of Altamira, Austrian-born Erwin Krautzer, 68, has been under armed guard. But Stang, an adamant defender of the poor in the Amazon, probably did more in death than in life to help them - her murder brought worldwide attention to the region and in the aftermath, the federal government has created environmental reserves and established a Federal Police office.(AustralFoto/Douglas Engle)

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A motorcycle passes a mural of Christ on a wall in Altamira, an Amazonian frontier capital in the Brazilian state of Para. The town on the Trans-amazonian highway is a hotbed for illegal logging, labor, land-grabbing and human rights abuses as ranchers and loggers resort to extremes in their advance on the Amazon forest. Ever since the murder of 73-year-old American nun Dorothy Stang in February 2005, the Catholic Bishop of Altamira, Austrian-born Erwin Krautzer, 68, has been under armed guard. But Stang, an adamant defender of the poor in the Amazon, probably did more in death than in life to help them - her murder brought worldwide attention to the region and in the aftermath, the federal government has created environmental reserves and established a Federal Police office.(AustralFoto/Douglas Engle)

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