Tag: Amazon
Brazilian Senate Starts Enquiry on Foreign Ownership of Amazon
The Brazilian Agriculture and Agrarian Reform Senate Commission seems more dedicated than ever to ...
Gordon Brown’s Friend Puts Tag Price on Brazilian Amazon: US$ 50 Billion
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, Brazil's president, reacted against international criticism of his administration's ...
President Lula Reminds World that the Amazon Has an Owner: Brazil
It's time the world realize that the Amazon has an owner and that that ...
Brazil Threatens to Expel NGOs and Foreigners from the Amazon
The Brazilian government is drafting a law asserting sovereignty over the often lawless Amazon ...
Brazil Has Deployed Close to 30,000 Troops to Defend Amazon Riches
Nelson Jobim, Brazil's Minister of Defense, announced he will be visiting neighboring countries to ...
Until World Gets Internationalized the Amazon Belongs to Brazilians Alone
In October 2000, I published an article entitled “A Internacionalização da Amazônia” (The Internationalization ...
Brazil Cuts a Rhode Island Worth of Amazon or Much More in 3 Months
Preliminary data reported this Wednesday, January 23, by the Brazilian Environment ministry and the ...
Brazil Amazon Indians Take on Soy Barons Blocking Dam Site
The remote Enawenê Nawê Indians have blockaded the construction site of a hydroelectric dam in ...
Brazil Needs Help of the Rich to Stop Amazon’s Destruction
The international conservation organization World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) is warning that a ...
Brazilian Armed Forces Complain of Obsolete and Broken Equipment and Low Wages
Brazil's armed forces, the largest military in Latin America, are badly equipped, demoralized over ...