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Mar 5, 2020 • 10 tweets • 4 min read
SCOOP: Mexico is illegally destroying protected mangrove trees to build an $8bn oil refinery in president Lopez Obrador’s home state qz.com/1807407/mexico…
Satellite images show a landscape razed of the precious super-carbon-eating trees on the spot AMLO has designated for a refinery that many say makes no economic sense.
SCOOP: Walmart dodged tax on nearly $2 billion, according to a whistleblower filing sent to the IRS and leaked to me.
Happy #BlackFriday!
/1 qz.com/1756717/whistl…
The world's biggest company had a ton of money sitting in Luxembourg—a tax haven—which it wanted to send home. But bringing it straight back would incur a large tax bill. /2