RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - In March 2003, three months into her tenure as Brazil's environment minister, Marina Silva gathered a half-dozen aides at the modernist ministry building in Brasilia, the capital.
She told them the new government of President Luiz Inلcio Lula da Silva was about to embark on a pharaonic infrastructure project for Brazil's arid Northeast.
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