I spent last semester in Dayton, Ohio and this news story repeatedly made front page news. Dorothy Stang, a nun from Dayton, Ohio was murdered in Anapu, Brazil on February 12. The trial for her murder took place last fall in Belem, Brazil. Parts of the story read kind of like a Brazilian novela: a nun fighting to save the rainforest and help the poor, wealthy but evil loggers and ranchers who order an execution, two pistoleiros who mistake the nun's bible for a gun, all set in a tropical paradise (known for its corruption). Watching the progress of the case through last semester was interesting.
For more information, or to read the letter Dorothy's family wrote to Lula, or the letter signed by 24 members of Congress to Lula, go to the Dayton Daily News website.
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