BNDES: a bank loans billions to tame South America’s wild waters

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By <a class="author-link"…Mar 29, 2016, 12:40 pm128 pts
[caption id="attachment_185332" align="alignnone" width="703"] A Kaiapo medicine man in the Amazon. New dams tend to disrupt traditional indigenous cultures, either with the dam, reservoir and transmission lines themselves, or with the deforestation, roads, logging, mining, population growth and urbanization…

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