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Brazil: The sale of America's smallest city and thoughts of buying the Amazon

Categories: Latin America, Brazil, U.S.A., Citizen Media, Economics & Business, Environment, Ideas

Janio, from Brazil, has written in his blog (“Made in Blog [1]” [pt]) about the auctioning off of the smallest city in America, Buford (Wyoming) [2], which has but one inhabitant. He draws [1] a parallel “with a time when some activists from the developed world threatened to buy the Amazon, in order to prevent its destruction”.