A look at violence and conflict over Indigenous lands in nine Latin American countries

Mongabay
May 31, 2022, 6:58 pm199 pts
For years, Ruth Alipaz has been fighting against the Chepete-El Bala hydroelectric project. The project involves the construction of two reservoirs that together would flood at least 66,200 hectares (163,500 acres) of land and displace more than 5,000 people, the majority of them Indigenous communities. “They…

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