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    Indigenous Communities Protest the Belo Monte Dam

    Amazonia.org.br | Indigenous leaders from more than 15 ethnic groups living in the Xingu River Basin (PA) promise to protest the Belo Monte dam on the 5th of April. According to the São Paulo newspaper O Estado, indigenous groups are worried about the rapidly approaching date of the auction due to take place on April 20th.

    March 24, 2010
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    Government License for Belo Monte Dam Provokes International Outcry

    Letter to President Lula Demands Cancellation of Massive Hydroelectric Project

    Today, a coalition of 140 international organizations sent a letter to Brazil's President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva to demand that he immediately halt plans to build Belo Monte Dam on the Amazon's Xingu River due to its immense social and environmental impacts, and instead consider alternatives.

    March 11, 2010
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    President of Brazilian Social and Economic Development Bank (BNDES) disregards resistance to Belo Monte dam and grants its financing

    Rede Brazil | Despite vehement opposition against the construction of the Belo Monte hydroelectric dam on the Xingu River from indigenous communities and local social movements; despite numerous warnings from scientists about the severe environmental impacts the dam will bring to the region; despite specialists from the Brazilian Environme

    March 3, 2010
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    Fury as giant Belo Monte Amazon rainforest dam is approved by Brazil

    Times Online UK | Brazil has approved the controversial construction of a giant hydroelectric dam in the heart of the Amazon, defying a 20-year protest by indigenous and environmental campaigners who say that the project will devastate the surrounding rainforest and threaten the survival of local tribes.The Belo Monte project on the Xin

    February 3, 2010
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    Global Concern Mounts Over Brazilian Government's Licensing of the Destructive Belo Monte Dam

    The World's Third Largest Dam Is Expected to Devastate Vast Area of Amazon Rainforest

    Brasilia, Brazil – A coalition of environmentalists, indigenous people, and social movements in Brazil condemned the news that an environmental license was issued yesterday by the Brazilian environmental agency (IBAMA) for the Belo Monte Hydroelectric Dam.

    February 2, 2010
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    BNDES Called to Account for Projects

    Recharge Magazine | Latin American communities and organisations want Brazil's national development bank, BNDES, to stop sponsoring 'destructive' renewables projects.Plataforma BNDES, a coalition of nearly 30 representatives from Brazilian social movements and non-governmental organisations, is pressing the bank to operate tr

    January 22, 2010
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    Battle for the Xingu

    Iara Lee / Cultures of Resistance | Imagine if Hurricane Katrina was not a hurricane at all, but an event sponsored by the federal government, in collaboration with several multinational corporations. If your imagination fails you, then perhaps you'll get a clearer picture by learning about the people of the Xingu River.

    January 2010
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