The president of Brazil has just authorized the building of a new hydroelectric plant, which will flood 400,000 hectares of forest, in which 40,000 Indians live
Brazil’s massive Belo Monte hydroelectric power project is arguably the most hated government project in the world. Although opposition to the dam remains more international than local, a group of fisherman and tribal members of the Xingu River Lives Movement rowed up and down the river on Wednesday to block construction workers from initial phase construction of the mega-dam.