Brazilian Stretch of Atlantic-Pacific Corridor Is Ready
Written by Newsroom
Monday, 06 July 2009
Brazil, Bolivia and Chile have announced that the interoceanic
corridor, from the Atlantic to the Pacific will be finished by 2011.
The announcement was made following an assessment of the different legs
of the corridor during a meeting in La Paz, Bolivia between the Public
Works ministers of the three countries.
The 5.580 kilometers route will link the Atlantic with the Pacific The 5.580 kilometers route will link the Atlantic with the Pacific
The corridor will link the Brazilian ports of Santos and Mato Grosso with the Chilean terminals of Arica and Iquique.
The Brazilians have already finished their connections to the border of Bolivia; Chile expects to conclude two relatively short missing sections by 2010 and Bolivia which lags has promised to have the network ready for the end of next year.
The La Paz meeting also advanced in other technical areas linked to the major undertaking such as tolls, transit criteria, insurances, dangerous cargoes, digitalization, legal compatibilities and details related to the different types of cargo.
"This has been a historic meeting, we're just months away from a major regional integration of the continent," said Brazilian minister Perrupato da Silva.
"A display of political will for the continent to count with an easy access to both oceans."
Chilean minister Sergio Bitar underlined the presidential commitment from the three countries, "not words and nice speeches, but deeds and facts."
The corridor will have an extension of 5.850 kilometers in the three countries, of which 1.528 in Bolivian territory, most of it with asphalt coating.
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The Smuggler's Expressway? Sounds like a flourishing "business" route! An economic boon for Bolivia and its coca trade, if they ever get their portion finished. The Coca~Costa Thruway?
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Brazil, Bolivia and Chile have announced that the interoceanic
corridor, from the Atlantic to the Pacific will be finished by 2011.
The announcement was made following an assessment of the different legs
of the corridor during a meeting in La Paz, Bolivia between the Public
Works ministers of the three countries.
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The small, coastal town of Condé is located just a twenty minute's drive from João Pessoa, the capital of Paraíba. The Northeast of Brazil has historically been a place of encounter and mixing between peoples. For millenia groups of indigenous people fished, farmed, migrated and sometimes fought along this large, fertile area. 
The Brazilian diplo-MÁ-cia (bad diplomacy) carries on its accelerated course towards the non-acknowledgment of human rights, although sometimes it takes pleasure in saying that it does precisely the opposite. The visit of Iran's president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, is another example of a diplomatic omission that verges on hypocrisy. 
On July 4, 2006, representatives of Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay met in Caracas to sign the protocol for the entrance of Venezuela into the Southern Common Market (Mercosur). After two and a half years, the protocol was approved by the legislative bodies of Argentina and Uruguay, and as of now it may be only days away from being ratified by the continent's economic megalith, Brazil. 
Some sectors of the fight against AIDS have suggested that Thabo Mbeki, the former president of South Africa, committed genocide through his absence from the fight against the illness in his country throughout his two terms. 
One hundred and eleven years after Brazil abolished slavery, the number of workers deprived of their freedom is still huge. They raise cattle, produce charcoal, sugar cane or timber. Some of them, most undocumented Bolivians, work in basements of small apparel factories in São Paulo and other metropolis. 
On November 7, 2009 a few friends and I had an opportunity to take a look inside a Brazilian jail outside the city of Rio de Janeiro. We were able to take some amateur footage of our experience on video (see link below). It's no surprise, of course, that the typical Brazilian jail lacks some of the functionality of those in North America or Europe, but our experience that day was quite shocking. 
Depletion of the Amazon Rainforest is not a new concern facing environmentalists, biologists, ecologists, and a growing number of the Amazonian indigenous peoples. For decades they have feared for the fate of the world's most biologically diverse and species-rich hothouse. 
Geisy Arruda made history this week in Brazil, but for all the wrong reasons. What began as a poorly planned fashion statement has become a worldwide tale. Geisy decided to wear a pink mini-dress to her private college in São Paulo state, and after that, all hell broke loose. 
The push of vigilante groups in Rio de Janeiro's favelas (shantytowns) in the last three years is the most important and alarming information of the just-released study by the Rio de Janeiro University's Violence Research Center (Nupev-Uerj). 
A dispute over drug trafficking territory in Rio de Janeiro has intensified lately, leaving in its wake unprecedented acts of violence, such as the downing of a police helicopter in the northern zone of the city on October 17. Three policemen died and another two were injured. This event has drawn the attention of the international media, who are raising the issue of public security for the 2016 Olympics to be held in Rio.
WE CHEATUM BUT GOOD HWY .
THE SITTING DUCK ROAD .
CRIME ON THE RUN
WHAT BAGER WE DONT NEED NO STINKING BAGES
YES YOU ARE BEING ROBED YET AGAIN BY A GOVERNMENT OFFICAL