...is the most controversial road in Brazil. At 1,100-miles long it is "the main north-south artery of the Amazon rainforest," built in the 1970s "to open up the jungle to colonisation - forgetting, of course, that many indigenous Indians lived there already. It has become a frontier of deforestation. Now President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has announced that one of the major projects of his second term, at a cost of $350m, will be to pave the 600 miles of the road that is still a dirt track." Check out the story in The Observer.
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