From http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070513/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/brazil_missionary_killed
"Brazil has one of the world's widest gaps between rich and poor, with 3.5 percent of landowners holding 56 percent of the arable land, and the poorest 40 percent owning just 1 percent. Given that police and judges usually do the bidding of the rich and powerful, those inequalities have proven explosive."