Although they put us in jail El Bala and El Chepete are unfeasible

This Spanish-language blog post by the Fundacion Solon discusses one of the severe reactions that the government has taken against activists fighting the planned mega-dam projects— incarceration of Solon and Archondo. Solon states in this blog post: “The hydroelectric plants of Chepete and El Bala are not profitable with current electricity prices according to Geodata's own identification study. That they take me to jail will not make these mega hydroelectric plants profitable. What the Ministry of Justice and Institutional Transparency has to do is investigate why a second contract was made with Geodata for $ 11.8 million to make the final design of the dams when in the Geodata report of the first contract, what cost 3.1 million dollars to the State, there were already enough elements to discard these mega projects….”