LatinNews Daily - 22 May 2008

Development: On 21 May Brazil's new environment minister, Carlos Minc, said figures due to be published next week would show a new increase in the rate of deforestation in the Amazon region, concentrated particularly in the large farming state of Matto Grosso.

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