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What will be left of the Xingu river for the people of Xingu?

Ademir Alfeu Federicci, murdered opponent of the Belo Monte Dam

Brazil's state dam company, Electronorte, is moving ahead with plans to build one of the Amazon's most controversial development projects - the Belo Monte dam on the Xingu River in the state of Pará. The Belo Monte dam replaces an old proposal for hydroelectric construction on the Xingu, abandoned over a decade ago in the face of massive international and national protest.

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