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Brazil, France launch $1.1 billion program to protect Amazon rainforest By Ueslei Marcelino BELEM, Brazil (Reuters) -Brazil and France on Tuesday launched an investment program to protect the Brazilian and Guyanese Amazon rainforest involving 1 billion euros ($1.1 billion) in private and public funds over the next four years. The…
French President Emmanuel Macron, who criticized Brazil's previous government for failing to protect the rainforest, will arrive on Tuesday in the Amazon at the start of a three-day visit to the South American country. Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva will meet Macron in Belem, near the mouth of the Amazon River, where the two will visit conservation parks with sustainable development projects and meet with Indigenous leaders. "Lula wants to show Macron the complexity of the Amazon, which is not just a vast rainforest but also a place where 25 million people live,"...
Brazilian police are investigating if a retired general who was far-right former President Jair Bolsonaro's running mate planned to bring Army special forces to the country's capital as part of a...
Brazilian police are investigating if a retired general who was far-right former President Jair Bolsonaro's running mate planned to bring Army special forces to the country's capital as part of a plan for a military coup after losing the 2022 election. General Walter Braga Netto, who had been Bolsonaro's defense minister and chief of staff, discussed preparing the travel and housing for members of a guerilla warfare unit to help foment a coup in Brasilia, according to documents seen by Reuters a
By Lisandra Paraguassu and Ricardo Brito BRASILIA (Reuters) - Brazilian police are investigating if a retired general who was far-right former President Jair Bolsonaro's running mate planned to bring Army special forces to the country's capital as ...