Author: hurwitz

The Initiative for the Regional Integration of Infrastructure in South America (IIRSA) is the latest in a series of disastrous international bank-financed schemes to bring "development" to the Amazon basin. Launched in

"We saw 50 tons of fish die in the Madeira in 2005. And we need to fish in order to live," warns Domingos Parintintin, leader of the 400 remaining Parintintin, indigenous people