New York Times: Marina Silva, the environmental minister who resigned this week, blamed “stagnation” in the government for her decision at a news conference on Thursday and acknowledged that governors in frontline Amazon states were pressing the president to rescind measures intended to check deforestation. “There were questions from some governors about those measures, and they couldn’t be relaxed,” Ms. Silva said. “It is crucial that we preserve the advances we have made, it is crucial that …