Transamazonica: A Highway to the Past
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The Transamazon highway was a gigantic saga, the greatest example of the pharaonic works of the Brazilian military government. But the road that would promote national integration was best known for linking the famine of the Northeast with the misery of the Amazon. This haunting docuseries follows the story of the construction of this highway and its morbid consequences.
Nowadays, entering the Legal Amazon via BR230 is disappointing since there is no forest there anymore. In this episode, we reveal the scars that the Guerrilha do Araguaia and the military repression left in the Bico do Papagaio region in the 1970s, a region that is still plagued by conflicts and remains at the top of the violence rates in Brazil.
