The vast Brazilian state of Amazonas is one of the poorest in the entire country, and one of the main reasons is that it is barely accessible.
With an area of 1,570,745.7 km2, the state is about the size of Iran or Mongolia and larger than Peru, Colombia, or Angola, and has no expressway at all.
Can you imagine Iran or Mongolia without a single safe federal highway? Probably not.
But this is exactly what the inhabitants of the Amazon state have had to endure until now.
That's why Brazil's environmental agency, IBAMA (Instituto Brasileiro . . .
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