Fast track to disaster? Brazil’s Grain Train plan raises fears for Amazon

Bolsonaro's government plans to build a 1,00km railway to export soya beans despite warnings of a catastrophe' for indigenous people and the environment

The Final Countdown blared from speakers and the crowd broke into applause as one of Jair Bolsonaro's top lieutenants strode into the Amazon auditorium with glad tidings of a railroad to the future.

The Grain Train' is going to happen," Brazil's infrastructure minister, Tarcisio de Freitas, told the hundreds of mostly male spectators who had flocked there in a caravan of high-end SUVs.