From: Gerald_A_Levy@MSN.COM
Date: Sat May 21 2005 - 10:21:53 EDT
< http://news.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/05/20/wjung20.xml > I heard about this on the BBC nightly news the other day. The BBC report claimed that the Green Party had withdrawn from a coalition with Lula's Workers' Party in protest over the inability and/or unwillingness of the government to stop the destruction of the Amazon rainforest. The report above claims that about half of the rainforest destroyed last year was in the state of Mato Grosso whose governor owns the world's largest soybean corporation. Most of the soy is for export and the BBC report claimed that it was largely responsible for the trade surplus in agricultural products from Brazil last year. Why hasn't the Lula government taken actions that (effectively) prevent the further destruction of the rainforest? In solidarity, Jerry
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