Associated Press – Huffington Post, 10/31/2012
A judge has suspended an order to evict 170 Indians from a plot in southwestern Brazil they say is ancestral land.
Federal judge Cecilia Mello says the Guarani-Kaiowa Indians can remain on the 2.5-acre (1 hectare) plot they occupied about 10 years ago until authorities decide if they or ranchers are the rightful owners.
Last month, a local judge ruled that the Indians had to abandon the land so that it could be returned to farmers who had been raising cattle and growing soybeans there.
