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Bolivia 'to end Brazil firm's contract for Amazon road' (BBC)
Bolivian President Evo Morales says he is rescinding the contract of a Brazilian firm to build a controversial road through the Amazon rainforest.
He accused the firm, OAS, of not complying with the terms of the deal.
The announcement casts further doubt on a road project that provoked angry anti-government protests last year.
Mr Morales had already suspended the most contentious section which was to pass through an indigenous rainforest reserve known as Tipnis.
Now he is seeking to annul the contract to build the other two sections of the road between Villa Tunari and San Ignacio de Moxos.
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more: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-17671257
they paved Paradise
and put up a parking lot
