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Back in Lima, he embarked on a vain campaign to challenge the lack of strategic vision that resulted in wasteful expenditure on small-scale projects. The only result of his efforts to gain official support for his way of seeing things was that
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Finding a route through the Andes to link the forested interior of Peru with the
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Mesones Muro immediately set about organising an exploratory expedition, funded with his own savings. His aim was to find the solution that best served the national interest. He set out on May 18, 1902, on an expedition that was to take him on an extraordinary adventure through the
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of a mountain pass only slightly higher than 2,000 m. and announced that the Pongo de
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