01/28/2008 05:30AM
For the first time, Brazil's efforts to curb deforestation in the Amazon region will now target farmers as well as loggers.In an emergency meeting of Brazilian cabinet ministers, the Associated Press reported, the national government decided to send extra federal police and environmental agents into
01/30/2007 02:48PM
BUENOS AIRES (Dow Jones)--Argentina has suspended the import of all meat products from Bolivia in response to an outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease, Senasa, the agricultural health and quality service, announced Tuesday.
Argentina will "suspend the entrance of all goods for import or transit to third
12/12/2006 08:26AM
Bolivia, named after independence fighter Simon BOLIVAR, broke away from Spanish rule in 1825 much of its subsequent history has consisted of a series of nearly 200 coups and countercoups. Democratic civilian rule was established in 1982, but leaders have faced difficult problems of deep-seated poverty