BRASIL: Satellites Show Mato Grosso Deforestation Increased...6-Fold; Dilma's Chief Of Staff Palocci Slammed For...20-Fold Increase...In Wealth.

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    Brasil's own space institute reports that satellite images show deforestation increased...from 103 sq km in March and April 2010...to 593 sq km.
    Most of the destruction took place in soya growing Mato Grosso state.
    Environment Minister Izabella Teixeira called the report "alarming" and will set-up a "crisis cabinet."

AND: the WSJ's P. Prado reports that President Dilma Rousseff's 5-month honeymoon may be over.

    Her trusted chief of staff Antonio Palocci, 52 (above) is under fire after a report in FOLHA de S.PAULO that his net worth...increased 20-fold...in just 4 years.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704083904576333661046913114.html

BRASIL: Cartoonist Murdered With Son In Robbery; Suspect Captured.

LAHT/ UPDATE: 16 MARZO/   Popular editorial cartoonist for the Folha de Sao Paulo daily newspaper, Glauco Villas Boas, 53, and his son Raoni, 25, were murdered during a robbery attempt in the Sao Paulo suburb of Osasco.
One suspect has been arrested. He is identified as college student Carlos Eduardo Sundfeld Nunes and described as a member of the Ceu de Maria spiritual center founded by Glauco Boas and his wife to help people with addiction problems. Nunes reportedly had free access to the residence and was allegedly a drug user who wanted help in recovering from his addiction.

BRASIL: Boycotts Against "Folha De S.P." For Lula Attacks And Bias.

GLOBAL VOICES ONLINE/
Two protest movements are calling on bloggers to un-subscribe to "Folha de São Paulo", and its website UOL. The boycott campaign was sparked by the Fohha's latest character assassination attempt against Brasil's president Lula da Silva by César Benjamin, claiming that Lula admitted in 1994 he had tried to sexually subdue a fellow inmate while jailed for political crime in the 80's.