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Several years ago, I reported on the efforts to connect the coasts of Brazil and Peru via a paved highway. As this article notes, it's a long-held dream. It's also a project that offers enormous economic promise -- and the potential of environmental peril.
This is only one of several interesting NPR reports on the Amazon.
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Inside South America is written by Jim Wyss, the South America bureau chief for the Miami Herald and McClatchy Newspapers.
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