Former President of Brazil
Appears in 2 stories
"The Amazon is Brazil's, not yours." — UN General Assembly, September 2019
Serving a 27-year sentence for attempting a coup
Brazil sells the United States about $40 billion in goods a year. A new US trade action could add 25% to the price of most of it.
Updated Jun 2
Left office January 2023; barred from running for office until 2030
Brazil cut Amazon deforestation by a third in the first six months of 2023, putting the world's largest tropical rainforest on track for its lowest annual clearing rate in years. The turnaround arrived fast: just months earlier, deforestation had been running at its highest levels in over a decade. The shift traces directly to a change in government and a rapid restoration of environmental enforcement that had been dismantled under the previous administration.
Updated May 29
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