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Confeds final   Thousands of Rio residents staged boisterous but
peaceful protests Sunday near the venue for the Brazil-Spain
final of the Confederations Cup, a dry run for next year's World
Cup.  Some 5,000 people, according to the organizers, sang and
danced to samba music as they marched toward Rio's Maracana
stadium but were blocked a police security cordon, hours before
the 7 p.m (2200 GMT) kickoff.  Police, who earlier estimated the
crowd at 2,500, said the march was peaceful.        Meanwhile,
another 3,000 protesters, mostly youths, rallied on Saens Penha
square, chanting "there won't be any final" as they made their
way toward Maracana, AFP correspondents reported.   The marchers
included indigenous people who were expelled from A "Maracana
Village" they had set up on the on the site of the former Indian
Museum located next to the stadium.  A small demonstration was
also held in the northeastern city of Salvador outside the
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