Hydroelectric plants may ease Brazilian product access to the Pacific
The construction of four hydroelectric dams along the Madeira River, in the north of Brazil, will create a 4,200-kilometre waterway network between the country and Bolivia. In five years, this could make it possible for produce from the state of Rondônia, also in the north, to reach Peru, a country in western South America, bathed by the Pacific Ocean. Access may also be by land, due to a contract for the construction of a highway, signed by presidents Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, of Brazil, and A
By Mark Ament
