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Dammed Rivers Create Hardship for Brazil’s Native Peoples

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Inter Press Service News Agency

Publication Date
2014-01-23

FOZ DO IGUAÇU/PAULO AFONSO, Brazil, Jan 22 2014 (IPS) - The Itaparica hydroelectric power plant occupied land belonging to the Pankararu indigenous people, but while others were compensated, they were not. They have lost land and access to the São Francisco river, charge native leaders in Paulo Afonso, a city in northeastern Brazil.

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