LatinNews Daily - 25 May 2011

Development: Late on 24 May the federal lower house approved by 410 votes in favour, to 63 against, with one abstention, an important overhaul of Brazil's forestry code, effectively relaxing longstanding legislation designed to protect the Amazon forest and curb deforestation.

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