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...true figure is closer to 7,000 sq. km. (2,700 sq. miles) "It is a completely new and very worrying development," Joao Paulo Capobianco, executive-secretary at the Environment Ministry, admitted at a press conference to announce the figures on Thursday. So worrying that President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva brought together several ministers to discuss measures designed at halting the destruction...
...Lula, elected with the support of green groups who later accused him of kowtowing to Brazil's powerful agribusiness lobby, called for a complete ban on deforestation in the 36 worst-hit municipalities and said he would next month send 800 federal police officers to ensure the moratorium is respected. He also told landowners they would have to register their properties and prove they comply with existing environmental legislation, something very few currently do. Those not in compliance will be ineligible for government credit or prohibited from selling their property. Measures will also be introduced to stop non-compliant businesses...
What the military build-up does, however, is give Chavez's Venezuela added prestige in the continental battle for political supremacy. Chavez has brought together South America's radical leftists under his socialist banner; while Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva leads a more measured coalition of social democrats. The two men are friends but both countries are getting used to being at the political and economic vanguard of South America. Military strength helps with that...
...Lula has asked Brazil's Congress to allocate 10.13 billion reais for its 2008 military budget, or around $5.6 billion at the current exchange rate. Brazil has what it calls a "dissuasive" defense policy and the majority of its spending will go to non-aggressive weaponry such as transport planes, helicopters, communications equipment and armored vehicles, according to Defense Ministry officials and analysts. Around $70 million has been set aside for early work on a nuclear submarine...
...Juan Mejía, a head of the student movement that led the opposition to Chávez at the referendum. Indeed, it was Chávez's electrifying emergence that paved the way for the election in this decade of other leftist heads of state, like Brazil's Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, Argentina's Néstor Kirchner and Chile's Michelle Bachelet, even if Chávez affects to disdain their moderate, market-oriented socialism. Sunday's humbling results will make Chávez a less swaggering figure on the hemispheric scene, yet a little humility on his part may make...