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Brazil: 'Gringos' must pay to stop Amazon razing

Originally published: November 26, 2009 11:38 PM
Updated: November 27, 2009 8:40 AM
By The Associated Press  MARCO SIBAJA (Associated Press Writer)

Quick ReadBrazil's president says 'gringos' should pay to halt Amazon deforestation

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MANAUS, Brazil (AP) — Brazil's president said that "gringos" should pay Amazon nations to prevent deforestation, insisting rich Western nations have caused much more past environmental destruction than the loggers and farmers who cut and burn trees in the world's largest tropical rain forest.

President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva made the comments Thursday just before an Amazon summit in which...

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