Indigenous organizations from the tri-border area where Peru [2]'s Madre de Dios [3] region, Bolivia's Pando [4] department and Brazil [5]'s Acre [6] state come together met in Puerto Maldonado, Peru, Sept. 28, and issued a statement declaring a "state of emergency" throughout the Amazon rainforest due to the "intense promotion, approval and execution of mega-projects by the governments of the three countries." The Fourth Tri-national Encuentro of Indigenous Peoples especially demanded cancellation of the Inambari hydro-electric plant in Madre de Dios and the Cachuela Esperanza hydro-dam in Pando. The meeting was called by the Coordinator of Indigenous Organizations of the Amazon Basin (COICA [7]). (La Republica [8], Lima, Servindi [9], Indigenous Peoples Issues & Resources [10], Sept. 29)
See our last post on the struggles for the Amazon rainforest [11] and control of water [2].
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