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Brazil highways drive Amazon development -- and destruction

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Brazil highways drive Amazon development -- and destruction

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Agence France-Presse

16 Views • Oct 08, 2019

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Highways and river ports that cut through the Amazon rainforest bring economic growth through commodities exports, but they also speed up deforestation and conflict in a lawless land where the state is largely absent.