‘A landmark’: Brazil’s prosecutors hail court ruling to preserve Fordlandia

Advocates have argued that Brazil’s government has dragged its feat over Fordlandia’s fate, leaving the historic site to decay.

Federal prosecutors in Brazil have celebrated a court decision mandating the preservation of Fordlandia, a 1928 city built by the United States industrialist Henry Ford in the middle of the Amazon rainforest.

The court ruling was the result of ...