According to the Brazilian business magazine Exame, Barack Obama would have have proposed to the Brazilian president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, whom he defines as "the world's most popular politician", to become the next president of the World Bank.
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Greenpeace Accuses Lula Of Financing The Destruction Of The Amazon
Greenpeace has released a 140 page report accusing the President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva of funding farmers and meat business, considered as the biggest destroyers of the Amazon rainforest, through the National Bank of Economic and Social Development (BNDES).
The report says the National Bank has granted loans by billions of dollars to the livestock enterprises responsible for 80% of the deforestation: an hectare of the Amazon rainforest is destroyed every 18 seconds.
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