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Brazil: Land reform protesters block track

SAO PAULO, March 11 (UPI) -- Brazil's landless activists spent several hours blocking a railroad operated by the mining company Vale.

The country's leading agrarian reform group, the Landless Workers Movement, or MST, said hundreds of their ranks barricaded the tracks Monday in protest of a proposal by Vale and another company to build a dam in the central Brazilian state of Minas Gerais, O Globo reported Tuesday.

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The land reform group often occupies unused private land in protests. The group and other agrarian reform activists have stepped up demonstrations as of late against large corporations operating in Brazil.

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