Inter Press Service: Public money in Brazil is being used by the state development bank to finance deforestation projects and others that trample rights, concentrate wealth, and encourage “imperialist” expansion of large national companies, according to activists at a three-day meeting in this southeastern city. The National Bank for Economic and Social Development (BNDES) promotes “a deadly kind of progress,” complained indigenous leader Toninho Guaraní, describing what he regards as the abuses of the …