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 SAO PAULO, Brazil (AP) - Police detained 16 activists from the environmental group Greenpeace on Friday after launching a protest against Brazil's largest soy exporter at an Amazon River port.
Agribusiness giant Cargill Inc. built a $20 million port three years ago at Santarem, located at the end of an unpaved road that leads through rain forest to soybean fields in the central-western state of Mato Grosso. Soy producers are lobbying the government to pave the road.
Environmentalists say paving would open up the heart of the rain forest to logging and ranchers.
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