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Amazon troops

Brazil is to increase troop numbers in the Amazon rain forest, build nuclear and conventional submarines to protect oil fields and modernise its weapons industry.

Amazon troops

Sat, 20 Dec, 2008 - 00:00

Defence minister Nelson Jobim said Amazon troops will go from 17,000 to 25,000

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