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...state-owned banks were periodically told to stop lending for industrial projects. But local officials often ignored the stop signs. More factories meant more jobs and more growth, which made them look good in the eyes of their political superiors. Not only that, but local officials, who can seize land and issue permits for new projects, were often silent partners in new manufacturing ventures. Too many factories were built as a result...
...with state and local officials, including law enforcement officers who were members of the FLDS community. The sheriff also paid visits to the YFZ Ranch because he was occasionally called on by its residents to be a notary or to remove illegal aliens the FLDS found crossing their land, and even once to investigate a traffic death, making him one of the few Eldorado citizens to see inside the compound...
...wide "draws" - the dry stream beds that can suddenly fill in heavy rains, sending water downstream to the Colorado River, a vital source for agriculture and recreation. The FLDS hired a Dallas engineer to design a sewage plant for them, but they wouldn't allow him on the land, Nikolauk said, so an arrangement was made to haul sewage to the city plant. They always paid their bills - in cash. "I established rapport with two or three of them," Nikolauk says, but few members of the community were ever seen in town at the feed store or coffee shop...
...private agricultural sector following a major farm strike against export taxes earlier this month. "This is the largest fire of this kind we've ever seen," said Interior Minister Florencio Randazzo in an emergency press conference at the Casa Rosada presidential palace. "It was started by farmers clearing land for cattle grazing driven by greed for profit with total disregard for human life." The President was just as harsh. "This is not a natural disaster, this is the result of certain aspects of human nature, irrationaity and irresponsibility...
...been raging out of control for two weeks now, have consumed some 80,000 hectares (300 square miles) of farmland on the giant river islands beyond the capital. Most local media reporting agree that the fires are caused by indiscriminate burning by cattle farmers who are opening up new land for grazing because existing farmland has been turned over to more profitable soy production. The area has a cattle population of some one million animals...