Transamazonica: A Highway to The Past

An introduction to the history and the socio-political context that fostered the construction of a work that “should be seen from the moon”.

A look at the scars that the Guerrilha do Araguaia and the brutal military repression left in the Bico do Papagaio region in the 1970s.

In this episode we learn about the colonization plan of the military government and compare the Transamazônica with the Belo Monte project.

In this episode we will follow how the road accelerated the main drivers of forest degradation in the region.

In this episode we investigate the original men of the “land without men”.

The road comes to an end filled with contradictions as we reflect on the collapse of other major development projects in the Amazon.