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...investment. Forgach, 52, spent decades making money the old-fashioned way, as an investment banker in places like Geneva and New York City. Now he is back in his native Brazil to show that preserving the environment and indigenous cultures can be profitable. As CEO of a Sao Paulo-based private company called A2R Environmental Funds, Forgach raises money from institutions like the Swiss government and the World Bank Group and invests mainly in sustainable agriculture and food processing in Latin America, including the Amazon. If you've bought organic raspberries under General Mills' Cascadian Farm label or ordered hearts...
Zoellick thinks he can lever almost anyone into a deal by preying on the fear of being left out. Last month, for instance, he wanted to speed up Brazil's march to free trade. But local politics were holding that up. So instead of flying to Sao Paulo, Zoellick flew to Santiago, where he inked a deal with Chile. The result was like a chapter from The Rules: Brazil now wants to speed up talks. But not everyone--the mobs that raged in Quebec, say, or Congressmen from steelmaking districts--can be levered. Zoellick will have to break them...
...survive more fraternal quarrels like that one. Chile is just one of several associate Mercosur members that are tilting toward the NAFTA model. Fears of Mercosur's demise are probably exaggerated, but Alberto Pfeifer, executive director of the Latin American Business Council, which is based in São Paulo, agrees that the bloc is at a crossroads. "If it stays as it is now, an incomplete customs union, it will, I would not say perish, but it will be attacked by the ongoing FTAA negotiations...
...With reporting by Sol Biderman/Sao Paulo, Susan Catto/Toronto, David S. Jackson/Los Angeles, Peter Katel/Mexico City, Tim Padgett/Miami and David Thigpen/Chicago...
...reach an Israeli-Palestinian agreement; and Vicente Fox ended 70 years of P.R.I. rule in Mexico through the ballot. To people outside the U.S., the presidential election was hardly the event that contributed the most to influencing the news, for better or worse, in 2000. JOAO LUIS HAMBURGER Sao Paulo...