Amazon dam project draws heated opposition in Brazil
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Rubber tappers,  fishermen and Indians in western Brazil have joined  environmental groups in battling a planned $9 billion  hydroelectric project that will flood one of the Amazon's main  tributaries.
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ANAPU, Brazil  - Thousands of Amazon peasants  flocked to the funeral of a U.S. nun on Tuesday and vented  outrage that Brazil's government has only acted to stem rising  violence in the rain forest after the murder of the renowned  foreign activist.
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SAO PAULO, Brazil  - Brazil's president often gets  criticized by his old leftist friends for being conservative at  home. But globally he has reshaped the debate on intellectual  property rights to reflect the needs of poor nations.
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A reported jump in the rate of Amazon deforestation is unproven despite a government crackdown on tree cutting, President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said in comments published Thursday.
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By Leonardo Pedro BELEM, Brazil  - Brazil mobilized some 2,000troops in the Amazon rain forest on Wednesday to curb deathsquads blamed for the deaths of an American nun, a union leaderand two workers in land battles in the last four days.
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BRASILIA, Brazil  - Brazil's opposition candidates   stepped up attacks on Thursday against President Luiz Inacio   Lula da Silva over corruption in an effort to trim the former   union leader's solid lead in the presidential election race.
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SAO PAULO -- As President Bush was flying to Brazil yesterday, thousands of protesters shouting, "Out Bush!" marched down this city's main drag, Avenida Paulista.
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Brazil says it will investigate claims that loggers are exploiting its policy of settling the poor in the Amazon.
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Brazilian organizers of the Rio de Janeiro leg of the Live Earth global concerts were trying to convince authorities on Wednesday not to cancel the Saturday show due to security concerns.
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LETICIA, Colombia -- The presidents of Colombia and Brazil met on their Amazon jungle border yesterday to discuss the dispute between Colombia and Venezuela, sparked by the abduction of a Marxist guerrilla on Venezuelan soil.
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BRASILIA, Brazil  - With his leftist credentials   and background as a factory worker in polluted Sao Paulo,   environmentalists had high hopes of Brazilian President Luiz   Inacio Lula da Silva when he took office in 2003.
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Science & environment: Space imaging gives the lie to Brazil's recent 'great achievement' of halting rainforest destruction
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Four years ago as presidential candidate, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva struck fear into the heart of Brazil's business community with the fiery rhetoric of his days as a leftist union boss.
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A proposal to build a hydroelectric dam on a river with diverse fish stocks has set off a controversy.
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Altitude, apathy, overconfidence - Brazil groped for reasons Thursday to explain its stunning 1-0 loss to Ecuador in the World Cup qualifiers.
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Environmentalists in China are fighting plans for a hydropower project that they say would endanger one of the world's deepest gorges.
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Police clashed Thursday with students, environmentalists and left-leaning Brazilians protesting a visit by President Bush and his push for an ethanol energy alliance with Latin America's largest nation.