This Spanish-language article discusses findings from a recent meeting in Rurrenbaque of indigeneous representatives from Colombia, Brazil and Bolivia (La mesa sobre Derechos Humanos, de Defensoras y Defensoras de la Vida). After review of planned dams in the Amazon, particularly in Colombia, Brazil and Bolivia, participants concluded that the implementation of these planned dams is a threat to the rights of people, their communities and nature and called on international organizations that are attentive to a possible massive violation of human rights due to the construction of dams. The participants raised concerns that the planned dams in Bolivia “encourage state corruption, unpayable indebtedness and complete economic and political dependence on foreign power” and that Bolivian studies suggest that the dams would be bad socially and environmentally, as well as economically unfeasible, and that they would squander and destroy natural resources, and sources of life and biodiversity.
Meeting of those affected in the Amazon rejects dam project in Bolivia