JACAREACANGA, Brazil (Reuters) - As Brazil struggles to solve land disputes between Indians and farmers on the expanding frontier of its agricultural heartland, more tensions over forest and mineral resources are brewing in the remote Amazon.
The government of President Dilma Rousseff gave eviction notices to hundreds of non-Indian families in the Awل-Guajل reserve in Maranhمo state in January and plans to relocate them by April, with the help of the army if necessary, Indian affairs agency Funai says.
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