Brazilian President's Push for Dams in Amazon Basin Stirs Controversy
Marcelo Ballve | 20 Aug 2007
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BUENOS AIRES, Argentina -- Brazil has always dealt with its energy problems in the same way— by building more dams. During the 1970s military dictatorship, it was thought a mega-dam or two would solve the country's energy problems for a generation. It was then Brazil began collaborating with neighboring Paraguay to build the massive Itaipu dam, which supplies approximately one-fifth of Brazil's energy.

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