Amazon highway is route to strife in Brazil
Deadly conflict pits peasants, newcomers
SANTARÉM, Brazil -- Along hundreds of miles of the north-south highway that bisects the Brazilian Amazon , the canopy of rain forests has been wiped out. Where the road is paved, loggers, ranchers, and commercial farmers have razed the landscape, removing valuable hardwoods and clearing fields for cattle and soybeans as far as the eye can see. (Full article: 1566 words)
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