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President Fernando Collor de Mello said last week that the government had to "stop Rio from becoming a new Chicago." Local critics suggested that a better comparison might be with Medellin, Colombia...
...legitimate interest in the fate of the Amazon rain forest. "If you set your homes on fire, it will threaten the homes of your neighbors," Lutzenberger noted with simple eloquence. Because of his reputation for outspokenness, the international environmental community was dumbfounded in March, when newly inaugurated President Fernando Collor de Mello named Lutzenberger Secretary of the Environment...
Donning army fatigues, Brazilian President Fernando Collor de Mello boarded an air force SuperPuma helicopter last week and flew over the dense rain forest of Roraima in the northern Amazon. The region is home to the Yanomami, a stone-age tribe threatened with extinction. For the past three years, their federally protected lands have been devastated by gold prospectors, whose search for riches has led to the deaths of an estimated 1,200 Indians from the 9,000-member tribe, largely through disease. Last October a federal court ordered the miners to leave the territory. But hundreds remained, using crude...
Inaugurated three weeks ago, Collor used the trip to signal that he will make environmental reform one of his administration's major goals. But pro- Indian groups contend that Collor must go much further and ban all miners from the Amazon. Says Claudia Andujar, an Indian-rights activist: "The cancer is still in the area. The miners will return and destroy more forests, pollute more rivers and kill more Indians...
...Collor, the challenge is to persuade his citizens that the current reform plan is not like all the others, to be abandoned when things get tough. "I am driving a packed bus at 150 km per hour, headed for a cliff," Collor told a group of legislators last week. "Either we put on the brakes and some people get a little bruised up, or we go over the edge...