Associated Press
It’s the longest bridge ever built in Peru, and so far, it goes nowhere
The bridge is part of a federal highway project to connect Iquitos, in Peru’s northeast, to the El Estrecho district on the Colombian border, in total some 188 kilometers (117 miles). It faces mounting opposition from Indigenous tribes who fear that the construction will lead to land grabbing, deforestation and drug trafficking, which have plagued similar projects across the world´s largest rainforest. “The highway will kill us,” Everest Ochoa, a member of the Maijuna indigenous group that lives in the Peruvian Amazon, told The Associated Press.
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