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Brazilian Land-Reform Activist Assassinated - Cicero Guedes - Peter Lemkin - 30-01-2013
RIO DE JANEIRO - One of Brazil's most longstanding land reform activists, Cicero Guedes, was found dead Saturday, his body riddled by bullets and dumped at the side of a highway, supporters said in a statement.
The Landless Farmworkers' Movement said Guedes's corpse was found in Campos dos Goytacazes, in northern Rio de Janeiro state. Police believe he was killed between late Friday and early Saturday and are investigating.
Guedes's body had several bullet wounds, local news agency Agencia Brasil reported.
The landless farmers' group, known by its initials MST, charged that the activist's killing was "fruit of the (systemic) violence of the large landholdings system, the impunity in (MST supporters' murder) cases, and the slow pace" of government-led land reform.
Guedes had for 11 years coordinated a squatting campaign on abandoned land in Campos, 275 kilometers (171 miles) north of Rio de Janeiro, which is surrounded by large landholders' farms.