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RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil — A shadowy consortium of ranchers and loggers has put a $500,000 price on the head of a bishop who defends poor settlers and Indians in the Amazon, a human-rights group said Tuesday.
The consortium has mapped out a detailed plan to kill Bishop Erwin Krautler, an Austrian national who has worked in the largely lawless state of Para since 1980, the Catholic Church-linked Indigenous Missionary Council said in a statement.
Powerful Amazon business interests have criticized the 69-year-old Krautler, who often protests land grabbing, debt slavery and environmental destruction.
The bishop has been under police protection since last year, according to a Para state police spokesman.
