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Inter Press Service: River port terminals in the northern Brazilian city of Santarém are considered strategic by the government. But what some see as an opportunity for development is for others an irreversible change in what was previously a well-preserved part of the Amazon rainforest.
In the evening light on the Tapajós River, whose green-blue waters mix with the darker muddy water of the Amazon River in Santarém, it's not easy to ignore the silos that overshadow what used to be a public beach, where passenger......
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Brazil’s Amazon River Ports Give Rise to Dreams and Nightmares
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on December 11th, 2015
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