Blairo Maggi

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Blairo Maggi (2003)

Blairo Maggi (São Miguel do Iguaçu, Paraná, 29 May 1956) is a soy plantation farmer and governor of the state of Mato Grosso in Brazil.

Maggi also owns the André Maggi Group, a large company that harvests, processes, and exports soybeans. The Maggi group is also involved in the infrastructure projects that are necessary to sustain the soy industry, notably soy terminals, highways, and waterways.

Maggi is the world’s largest soyabean producer.[1]. His accusers hold him responsible for the destruction of the Amazon rainforest. His defenders say he is taking Brazil forward. In this respect he is unapologetic, telling the New York Times in 2003:

"To me, a 40 per cent increase in deforestation doesn't mean anything at all, and I don't feel the slightest guilt over what we are doing here. We're talking about an area larger than Europe that has barely been touched, so there is nothing at all to get worried about."

Maggi received the Golden Chainsaw Award in 2006 from Greenpeace for being the Brazilian who most contributed to the destruction of the Amazon Rainforest.[2]

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Current governors of states and territories of Brazil

AC: Binho Marques (PT)
AL: Teotonio Vilela Filho (PSDB)
AP: Waldez Góes (PDT)
AM: Eduardo Braga (PMDB)
BA: Jaques Wagner (PT)
CE: Cid Gomes (PSB)

ES: Paulo Hartung (PMDB)
GO: Alcides Rodrigues (PP)
MA: Jackson Lago (PDT)
MT: Blairo Maggi (PPS)
MS: André Puccineli (PMDB)
MG: Aécio Neves (PSDB)

PA: Ana Julia Carepa (PT)
PB: Cassio Cunha Lima (PSDB)
PR: Roberto Requião (PMDB)
PE: Eduardo Campos (PSB)
PI: Wellington Dias (PT)
RJ: Sérgio Cabral Filho (PMDB)

RN: Wilma de Faria (PSB)
RS: Yeda Crusius (PSDB)
RO: Ivo Cassol (PPS)
RR: Ottomar de Souza Pinto (PSDB)
SC: Luiz Henrique da Silveira (PMDB)
SE: Marcelo Déda (PT)

SP: José Serra (PSDB)
TO: Marcelo Miranda (PMDB)

DF: José Roberto Arruda (DEM)

v • d • e Governors of Mato Grosso (1889 — 2008)

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