UPDATE 2-Protesters end blockade of Brazil mining railroad
ju4 wa4i dia4n zo1ng he2 ba4o da4o :\n  (Adds protesters ending blockade)\nSAO PAULO, June 12 (Reuters) - Hundreds of Brazilian\nprotesters ended a blockade of a railway line that transports\niron ore for mining company Vale <VALE5.SA> <RIO.N>, the\ncompany said late on Thursday.\nIt was the latest in a series of protests this week, some\nof them violent, by landless peasant groups targeting large\ncompanies and multinationals in Brazil.\nProtesters left peacefully after the Minas Gerais state's\njustice department ordered them to leave the tracks earlier on\nThursday or risk being removed by police or fined 30,000 reais\n($18,000) for every day they remained, Vale said in a note.\n"It started around 6 a.m. this morning," a Vale spokeswoman\nsaid, adding more than 30 trains were delayed in the 10 hours\nthat protesters had stopped traffic on the railway.\nTrains on the line each carry around 14,000 tonnes of ore\nfrom the company's network of mines in the state to ports but\nVale could not immediately confirm how many were transporting\nthe commodity. It said around 70 trains a day carry iron ore\nand other cargo down the line.\nOne passenger train was stopped by the protest as well as\ntrains carrying goods for other firms, Vale said.\nThe Via Campesina peasant movement said about 1,500 people\nwere occupying the railway to pressure Vale to negotiate with\n500 families who will be dislodged by the construction of a\nhydro-electric dam in which the company is involved.\nProtesters occupied properties of industrial conglomerate\nVotorantim and a supermarket belonging to the Wal-Mart <WMT.N>\ngroup on Wednesday.\nThe peasant groups are demonstrating against the advance of\none-crop farms they say harm the environment and small farmers.\nThey are also protesting high food prices, the growing use of\nbiofuels and the influence of multinational companies in\nBrazil.\nVia Campesina said in a statement it was holding another\nprotest in front of Goias state's electricity company over\nprice increases.\n(Reporting by Peter Murphy and Reese Ewing; Editing by Kieran\nMurray)\n((Reuters messaging: peter.murphy.reuters.com@reuters.net;\ntel 55 11 5644 7736))\nKeywords: BRAZIL MINE/PROTEST