{"id":509904,"date":"2022-07-29T09:59:38","date_gmt":"2022-07-29T04:29:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=509904"},"modified":"2022-07-29T10:57:08","modified_gmt":"2022-07-29T05:27:08","slug":"brazil-grants-permit-to-pave-highway-through-heart-of-amazon-forest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/brazil-grants-permit-to-pave-highway-through-heart-of-amazon-forest\/","title":{"rendered":"Brazil grants permit to pave highway through heart of Amazon forest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Brazil\u2019s environmental authority on Thursday granted an initial permit that will allow a major highway to be paved through the center of the Amazon rainforest, the minister of infrastructure said, in a move that threatens to increase deforestation.<\/p>\n<p>Right-wing President Jair Bolsonaro on the campaign trail had pledged to repave the road, called BR-319, that would connect the largest Amazon city of Manaus year-round to the rest of Brazil.<\/p>\n<p>The road was originally constructed by Brazil\u2019s military dictatorship in the 1970s but rapidly fell into disrepair in the harsh conditions of the rainforest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brazil\u2019s environmental authority on Thursday granted an initial permit that will allow a major highway to be paved through the center of the Amazon rainforest, the minister of infrastructure said, in a move that threatens to increase deforestation. Right-wing President Jair Bolsonaro on the campaign trail had pledged to repave the road, called BR-319, that would connect the largest Amazon city of Manaus year-round to the rest of Brazil. The road was originally constructed by Brazil\u2019s military dictatorship in the 1970s but rapidly fell into disrepair in the harsh conditions of the rainforest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-509904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509904","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=509904"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509904\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=509904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=509904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=509904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}