Brazil land reform head fired amid push to legalize cleared Amazon land

Mongabay
Oct 3, 2019, 1:09 pm200 pts
Brazilian far-right President Jair Bolsonaro has fired the head of the federal agency in charge of the country’s land reform, a move critics say yields to pressure from the powerful farm lobby to push legalization of cleared land in the Amazon — and further increase deforestation in the region as it could…

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