CALEMAR, Peru: Martin Vizcarra stepped down from a military helicopter into a small Peruvian jungle village where no president had ventured before.

Donning thick-soled boots, he journeyed across the banks of an Amazonian tributary to inaugurate a new bridge replacing a rope-and-basket system people had used for decades to cross the churning current below.

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