When I was touring Blood of the Wicked people sometimes asked me if the book didn’t exaggerate the gravity of Brazil’s land wars and/or the impunity of the rich in Brazil. Anticipating that, and because there are aspects of it almost impossible to believe for someone who hasn’t lived here, I ended the book (author’s notes) with a reference to Dorothy Stang.
I’m in São Paulo at the moment and the media has been full, day after day, of coverage about the murder of a five year old, allege…
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Added by Leighton Gage on May 13, 2008 at 1:09am —
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