Spensy Pimentel
Reporter - Agência Brasil

Altamira (Pará) - General Jairo César Nass, who is in charge of the military operation in the state of Pará, in northern Brazil's Amazon region, informed that 2 thousand soldiers have already been sent to the region of Anapu, where Dororthy Stang, an American-born nun who was a naturalized Brazilian, and two rural workers were murdered last week, all of them in the area known as the Esperança ("Hope") Sustainable Development Project.

The investigations into the murders are making headway. Four arrest warrants have been issued, and, according to the Civil and Federal police, the Army's helicopters should help in the search for the escaped suspects in hard-to-reach regions in the vicinity of Anapu.

The general pointed out that, in the entire region, he has under his command "four thousand men ready to go into action."

Translation: David Silberstein