Pará: Hundreds Occupy Belo Monte Dam Site In Brazilian Amazon

Pará: Hundreds Occupy Belo Monte Dam Site In Brazilian Amazon   Indigenous peoples & riverine communities gather in peaceful protest   Hundreds of indigenous leaders, fishermen and riverine people from the Xingu River basin have gathered to occupy the Belo Monte Dam construction site in a peaceful protest to stop its construction in Altamira, located in the state of Pará in the heart of the Brazilian Amazon. They have vowed to permanently occupy the site and are calling on allied...

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