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Brazil Flashcards

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IBAMA Agency

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Brazilian agency that regulates environmental policies

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The Amazon Fund

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Brazil’s government effort to prevent deforestation

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Petrobas Oil Company

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Brazilian Oil Company apart of scandal involving construction companies and gov. to monetize the Rainforest

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Land Grabbing

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Acquiring land, property, or patent rights by fraud or force, relates to companies in the Amazon that illegally occupy indigenous territory

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Workers Party

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(Parrish dos Trabalhadores) left-wing political party dedicated to improved conditions for low income people

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Luiz Inacio da Silva

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Active role in Workers unions. Brothers torture pushed him towards into becoming president of Brazil’s union of metal workers. 1970s

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Ran in 2002 and won lifted millions of Brazilians out of poverty

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Lula

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Bolsa Familia (Family Allowance) program

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Provided families with monthly allowance for food, gas, and schooling.

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Spent 582 Days behind bars

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Lula

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Won presidency in 2023 after

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Supreme Court overthrowing conviction in 2019

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Jair Bolsonaro

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President from 2019-2022
Right wing nationalist

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Marina Silva

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Elected environmental minister

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Marina Silva

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Resigned 2008
And serves as Brazil’s Minister of the Environment and Climate Change under lula

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14
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Lula helps Iran by

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Allowing warships to dock, worrying Israel and US

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15
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Brazil needs to increase what by 44%

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Bean production

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The end of the Military Government caused

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Brazil’s economy to grow faster in 1985-1986 than any other country in world

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Endangered marmosets

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Home in Amazon

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Spans over 9 countries

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Amazon Rainforest

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60% of Amazon Rainforest in

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Brazil

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Home to 10% of worlds biodiversity

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Amazon

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90-140 billion tons of carbon

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Amazon

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One threat to Amazon

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Cattle Ranching

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Largest beef exporter in world

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Brazil

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Rubber Trapping

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Farmers that slice into trees in order to harvest latex that is found inside

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Action Plan for the Preparation and Control of Deforestation in the Amazon (PPCDAm) under

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Lula Da Silva

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“Mais Alimentos” (more food) for family farms under

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Lula

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Reinstated IBAMA Agency,
Amazon Fund
Germany pledging 217 million to Amazon fund

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Lula da Silva

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Under Jair Bolsonaro

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*Unearth Amazon mineral wealth
*Boost gold mining
*Cut budgets and stripped environmental agencies like IBAMA
*deforestation to boost Brazil’s economics
* Amazon fund halted
* 17% of Amazon destroyed under his presidency

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