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Caribbean & Central America - March 2015 (ISSN 1741-4458)
PANAMA: Varela makes gestures to indigenous sector
Last month Panama’s President Juan Carlos Varela announced that work would be suspended on the Barro Blanco hydroelectric dam, a project deeply unpopular with the local indigenous Ngöbe-Buglé community and environmentalists. While the future of the dam, which is 95% complete, remains uncertain, its suspension – for failing to meet the requirements of its environmental impact assessment (EIA) – comes amid other conciliatory gestures to the indigenous sector, which had frequent clashes with Varela’s predecessor, Ricardo Martinelli (2009-2014), over his insistence on pursuing unpopular mining and hydroelectric projects.
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