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...citrus, the bruiser has been import liberalization. In 1988 Canberra relaxed tariffs on a variety of products, enabling Brazilian oranges to capture 20% of the domestic market. Australia's 167,000 farmers protested that such imports were heavily subsidized by foreign governments. But Canberra remains committed to free trade in an effort to make the country more competitive. Whether market-oriented policies will rescue the countryside is the big gamble: a question, as the doomed sheep might attest, of killing some agriculture in order to save...
Paul Simon: The Rhythm of the Saints (Warner Bros.). Intricate Brazilian rhythms; complex, inward-looking lyrics. And something else too: good...
...raised hopes that the burning of the Amazon rain forest would be halted. But environmentalists are still waiting for Collor to prove that his commitment to saving the Amazon is more than public relations. "Lutzenberger has not presented one significant change in internal policy," says Fabio Feldmann, the only Brazilian congressman elected on a green platform...
...stunning admission came as Darci Alves da Silva, 23, and his rancher father, Darly Alves da Silva, 54, went on trial in the Amazonian town of Xapuri last week for the murder of Francisco ("Chico") Mendes, the Brazilian rubber tapper and defender of the rain forests who became an environmental martyr after a single shotgun blast killed him in 1988. Asked by the judge if he "carried out" the murder, Darci answered, "I confirm...
...proceeding, as many of the local people claim, just a show for the international media? No, argues Brazilian Environment Secretary Jose Lutzenberger, who sees the trial as a clear demonstration that his country will protect the rain forest, along with the rubber tappers (seringueiros) and Indians who depend upon the trees for their livelihood. "Chico Mendes did not die in vain," he says. "We must and will put a stop to ecological crimes...