Categories Alert, Brazil, Latin America

Brazil – Scrap the Belo Monte Hydroelectric Dam !

First published on 05/20/2011, and last updated on 06/01/2016

A letter to Dilma Vana Rousseff, President of the Federative Republic of Brazil, was sent on May 10, 2011.

This letter, written on behalf of the ICCA Consortium, concerns the construction of the Belo Monte Hydroelectric Dam Complex in the Amazonian State of Para and highlights the Brazilian government’s reaction to withdraw its candidate for commissioner in 2012, along with threatening to pull funding from the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR.)

Read the letter