Mato Grosso: Indigenous People Occupy The Nortão Hydroelectric Power Plant In Protest

Mato Grosso: Indigenous People Occupy The Nortão Hydroelectric Power Plant In Protest   Translated from Portuguese, Original Below   More than 50 Indians of ethnicities Arara and Cinta Larga, armed with bows, arrows and burduna, are camped out, this morning, at the Hydroelectric Energy (UHE) Dardanelles, Aripuanã, where they claim the company responsible for clearing the environmental impacts rights has not fulfilled its obligations. The captain of the military police, Anderson Luiz da Silva,...

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