Guatemala dam will bring money, misery

Posted on: June 11th, 2008
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“Alejandro Che Paau’s home is slated to be under water by 2013.

Paau was born in this Maya-Q’eqchi jungle village of 300 people perched above the verdant banks of the Chixoy and Copón rivers in northern Guatemala. Fields of cardamom and corn surround several dozen palm-thatched homes, which are accessible only by boat or foot.

But the junction of these two jade-colored rivers, a 20-minute descent from Paau’s home, is also the proposed site for the nation’s second-largest hydroelectric project - the Xalalá Dam. His village is one of 18 communities that would become a 3-square-mile reservoir.”*

*From: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/06/08/MN6110LJAP.DTL&type=scienceDELETEME!
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