2009年11月27日星期五

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Yahoo! News: Brazil


Honduran favorite aims for Brazil's support (Reuters)

Posted: 27 Nov 2009 05:55 PM PST

Reuters - The favorite in Honduras' weekend presidential election said on Friday he will try to persuade the world and especially Brazil to recognize him if he wins to end Central America's worst political crisis in decades.

Brazil Bank Funds Destructive Projects, Say Activists (OneWorld.net)

Posted: 27 Nov 2009 03:26 PM PST

OneWorld.net - RIO DE JANEIRO, Nov 26 (IPS) - Public money in Brazil is being used by the state development bank to finance deforestation projects and others that trample rights, concentrate wealth, and encourage "imperialist" expansion of large national companies, according to activists at a three-day meeting in this southeastern city.

Jobs, economics complicate Brazil's Amazon fight (AP)

Posted: 26 Nov 2009 10:48 PM PST

In this Sept. 15, 2009 photo, a deforested area burns near Novo Progresso in Brazil's northern state of Paral. The Brazilian Amazon is arguably the world's biggest natural defense against global warming, acting as a 'sink,' or absorber, of carbon dioxide. But it is also a great contributor to warming. About 75 percent of Brazil's emissions come from rainforest clearing, as vegetation burns and felled trees rot. (AP Photo/Andre Penner)AP - Drawing his .40-caliber pistol, Severiano Pontes dashes across the steaming, muddy jungle floor, a hunch telling him what he would find around a bend.


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