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Jair Bolsonaro, Brazil’s new president, sees environmental laws as barriers to wealth.

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Jair Bolsonaro, Brazil’s new president, sees environmental laws as barriers to wealth. The fate of the Amazon is at stake.
Sunday, November 11, 2018 11:00 AM EST

Mr. Bolsonaro has promised to scale back enforcement of environmental laws, calling them an impediment to economic growth, and has made his intentions for the Amazon clear.

“Where there is indigenous land,” he said last year, “there is wealth underneath it.”

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