WATER ABLAZE - Patagonia Sin Represas

transparency and public participation. Your reaction was to order
the Brazilian army to commence work on preparations for the river
diversion project.
Mr. President, you did not keep your word. You did not abide by
our agreement. You betrayed me and all of Brazilian society.
A nation can only be built by serious people, beginning with
its leaders. Dignity and honour are indispensable premises for
citizenship.
Therefore, I am going to take up my fasting and my prayers
again. And I will only stop it when the army withdraws from the
construction site of the diversion project at the north and the
east canals and with the abandonment of the São Francisco River
Diversion Project. There is no other alternative.
I believe that the forces which have interests in the project will
use all means in order to demoralise the resistance and to confuse
public opinion. But when Jesus decided to sacrifice His life, He had
no fear of the crucifix. He accepted crucifixion because it was the
price that had to be paid.
The life of the river and its people, or the death of a Brazilian
citizen…
When reason becomes extinct, insanity is the only way forward.
The God of Life is the guarantee of plenary life.
“Brazil is a land of greatness. Will it also have governors of equal
grandeur” (Bourdoukan Georges in “Capitão Mouro”)
Dom Frei Luiz Flávio Cappio, OFM
Bishop of the Diocese of Barra
In December 2007, the Canadian activist and Director of the Polaris
Institute, Tony Clarke, wrote to the Brazilian ambassador to Canada:
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