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PUERTO SUAREZ, Bolivia (AP) - The view into Brazil from this Bolivian border city is of an Amazon jungle paradise: an endless green horizon broken only by a patch of urban skyline reflected in a shimmering lagoon.
But in the tranquility, authorities see an increasingly sophisticated cocaine trade positioned to supply Brazil's megacities to the east and Europe beyond.
The gateway for that trade is an imposing tangle of swamps, rivers, and rainforest along the 2,130-mile Brazil-Bolivia border, a daunting frontier neither country guards especially closely.
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