Brazil seeks wider control on continental shelf resources
Wednesday, September 8, 2010 - 17:14
in Mathematics & Economics
RIO DE JANEIRO, Sept. 8 (UPI) -- Brazil expanded its offshore border through a unilateral Navy order, opening up possibilities of copycat actions elsewhere and asserting its interest in hydrocarbon and mineral resources beyond the maximum 200-nautical mile zone claimed by some other Latin American nations. Brazil - Rio de Janeiro - Latin America - South America - Travel and Tourism