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Entries from March 2008

Meanwhile, in the Amazon forest

March 4th, 2008 · No Comments

The bulk of Brazil’s military history involves skirmishes with its southern neighbors, Argentina, Paraguay and Uruguay (not to mention its own population). By the start of this century, though, the majority of the armed forces was steadily transferred to the Northwest, to patrol the Amazon border, especially the 1,000+ miles of forest separating it from [...]

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