But soon enough, crumbling concrete gave way to thick forest, spread across a series of river valleys.

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The reporters are hooded, dragged through a forest by their thumbs, pushed into a hut and interrogated on a cold concrete floor.

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Drive east and you see the same, an undulent landscape carpeted with buildings completed or under construction, roads thick with traffic, and a few forlorn patches of the original Atlantic Forest or more recently transplanted eucalyptus trees to break up the relentless jumble of concrete.

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