Mato Grosso (Brazil)

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Brazil targets illegal abortions

bbc.co.uk
Nov 21, 2008 2 related
        

Police inquiries may involve women's partners as well as medical staff Brazilian police are investigating more than 1,200 women suspected of having had abortions in a clinic in the state of Mato Grosso Do Sul. Some 150 women...

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Tumbling soybean prices worry Brazilian farmers

sacbee.com
Nov 16, 2008 3 related
        

This place used to be the middle of nowhere.Then Brazilians desperate to escape poverty settled the region beginning in the late 1970s. They cut down the trees and scrub bushes that covered the land. First, they planted rice....

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Deforestation in Mato Grosso, Brazil

nasa.gov
Nov 14, 2008
        

acquired July 28, 2006 An inland state of central Brazil, deep in the Amazon interior, Mato Grosso was long isolated from the outside world. A railroad, followed by highways and airplanes, eventually connected this state with...

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