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INAUGURATED. LUIZ INACIO LULA DA SILVA, 57, as the first left-wing President of Brazil in 40 years; in Brasilia. A former factory worker and fiery trade-union leader, "Lula" swept to power in October with 61% of the vote. He has pledged to reduce corruption, improve education and reduce economic misery. (Brazil currently has a 12% inflation rate and debts that account for nearly 61% of its gdp.) Since October, the President-elect has tried to caution the public against having overly high expectations, but a recent poll found that 80% of Brazilians are hopeful his administration will...
...State, has long been devastated by logging and ranching. But nature is making a comeback in this impoverished region, thanks largely to the Instituto de Pesquisas Ecologicas (Institute for Ecological Research), an organization co-founded in 1992 by Padua and her husband Claudio, a primatologist at the University of Brasilia. IPE's mission is as simple as it is ambitious: to protect--and insofar as possible--reconnect the last precious remnants of the Mata Atlantica, the great forest that once covered virtually the whole of eastern Brazil...
...free of the misery, famine and destruction imposed on it for ages by its neighbors and by civil unrest. Now, under the guidance of the inexperienced President Bush, one cannot look for anything sane or merciful. I don't expect this fiasco to be over soon. EVERTON M. SANTOS Brasilia...
President Clinton spent the final summer weekend of his presidency on a strange sojourn in raw, unfinished Abuja trying to shake other misperceptions about Nigeria. Abuja, like Brasilia and - come to think of it - Washington, D.C., was nothing until the Nigerian government decided a generation ago to move their capital 300 miles inland. The Gwari tribe was forced off its land as the government began constructing its new capital here in the middle of the country. They chose the sparsely-populated region because it isn't dominated by any of the three major tribes, the Hausa, the Yoruba...
...BRASILIA, Brazil: Now the IMF is throwing money at investors. Desperate to attract traders after months of dithering that stalled its planned $30 billion bailout of Brazil, the fund Friday announced it had upped the ante to a whopping $41 billion. FORTUNE writer Nelson Schwartz says the extra cash should do the trick -- not just by filling Brazil's coffers, but by warming investors' hearts...