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Antonio Isidio Pereira.
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When Father Josef Wasensteiner received a call on Christmas Eve to tell him that a friend and active forest defender had turned up dead, the Catholic priest was devastated, but not surprised.
“This community is one in conflict,” said German-born Wasensteiner, who immigrated more than 30 years ago to the edge of Brazil’s Amazon in Codo, Maranhao state.