'Project of death': alarm at Bolsonaro's plan for Amazon-spanning bridge

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"From the veranda of her wooden home, Joaci da Silva looked out across her garden towards the waters of the River Amazon, and shuddered as she considered the future.

“Today we live in a paradise,” she said.

But the future of that paradise is in doubt after Brazil’s far-right president Jair Bolsonaro backed plans to build a bridge acrosDom Phillips​s the river, and extend a busy highway hundreds of miles through protected forests.

“We know there will be a big impact,” said Da Silva, 51, who – like many people in the tiny riverside community of Santíssima Trindade – fears the project will bring crime, noise and pollution. “It will bring some benefits and jobs, but there will be devastation.”"

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