Pará: Amazonian Communities Occupy The Belo Monte Dam Site To Free The Xingu River

Pará: Amazonian Communities Occupy The Belo Monte Dam Site To Free The Xingu River On the Eve of the Rio+20 UN Conference, Community Resistance Calls Attention to Brazilian Government's Unsustainable Energy Policy While the Brazilian Government prepares to host the Rio+20 United Nations Earth Summit, 3,000 kilometers north in the country's Amazon region indigenous peoples, farmers, fisherfolk, activists and local residents affected by the construction of the massive Belo Monte...

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