Brazil’s Lula backs highway through Amazon that could drive deforestation

MANAUS, Brazil,  (Reuters) – Brazil’s President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, after months of hedging on the issue, has committed his government to finishing a road through a pristine part of the Amazon rainforest, a move scientists say will bring disastrous deforestation.

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