Brazil's No.1 Amazon Enemy Wants Multinational Land Takeover
Brazil's No.1 Amazon Enemy Wants Multinational Land Takeover
Brazil's interim President Michel Temer (R) talks with his Agriculture Minister Blairo
Maggi during a Global Agribusiness Forum in Sao Paulo, Brazil July 4 2016.
| Photo: Reuters
Published 2 February 2017 (5 hours 49 minutes ago)
In 2005, Greenpeace awarded the current agriculture minister their Golden Chainsaw award, branding him the "person who most contributed to Amazon destruction."
Brazil could pass a law by the end of June to lift limits on foreign purchases of agricultural land, the Agriculture Minister said in an interview.
The bill, which still has to go before Congress, would end an effective ban on major foreign ownership of agricultural land imposed in 2010 under leftist former-President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.
The move is part of a series of neoliberal measures imposed by the government of President Michel Temer, which since coming to power in August 2016 has sought to rapidly dismantle the gains of subsequent Workers’ Party, or PT, governments.
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