Amazon Basin / Letters

Mr. Enrique V. Iglesias
President, Inter–American Development Bank
C.C. Members of Board of Executive Directors
Washington, D.C.

Dear Mr. Iglesias;

We are farmers, artisanal gold miners, fisherfolk, and riverbank dwellers, expelled from our homes and work areas by the construction of the Cana Brava Hydroelectric dam, in Goiás state. We are carrying out a demonstration in protest at the Brazilian headquarters of the IDB. We want the Inter–American Development Bank to take concrete and immediate measures to resolve the serious problems affecting our families, as a result of the construction of this dam that your bank financed.