RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - The President of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, appointed this Sunday Eduardo Piñate as Minister of Education and Vice-President of the Government for Social and Territorial Socialism, who was in charge of the Labor portfolio, which will now be headed by the until now Deputy José Ramón Rivero.
The new appointments take place due to the death, at the age of 74, of Professor Aristóbulo Istúriz last Tuesday, explained the President in a telephone contact through the state channel VTV. Regarding this circumstance, this situation that we have had to live with . . .
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Bills before Brazil Congress slammed for rewarding Amazon land grabbers
by Fernanda Wenzel on 15 April 2021
Two bills, one each in the upper and lower houses of Congress, would grant invaders of public forests with land titles, instead of punishing them and returning the land to the state.
The proposals also increase the area of properties eligible for regularization without an on-site inspection, and risk exacerbating land conflicts in Brazil.
Both bills were born from an executive order from President Jair Bolsonaro that expired in May last year.
The backers of the bills say they would facilitate the regularization of the lands of small farmers, but environmental and land issues experts say the main beneficiaries will be land grabbers and large farmers.