Resumen de Presas y cuestiones socio-ambientales en el Brasil
Highly negative socio-environmental impacts for the marginal sectors of society are associated with the implantation of economic macro projects, particularly in reservoirs destined to the installation of hydroelectric plants in the tropical forests. In Brazil, indigenous groups and rural populations have have lived different negative experiences as a result of this type of projects being implanted, such as thousands of hectares, which before were previously covered by jungle and being flooded. The Balbina hydroelectric located at the north of the Brazilian Amazonia, is taken as a paradigmatic case for the State nation which sponsored these works, moves within an integrationst, authoritarian and coercive vision, which favours the privileged sectors of a national society
