Ríos Libres Comunidades Vivas ~ Patagonia Sin Represas

Pictures are worth thousands of words. On May 9 of this year the Piñera government in Chile gave approval to the HidroAysén project after three years of irregular and fraudulent review of the dams proposed for the Baker and Pascua rivers in the Aysén Region of Chile's Patagonia.
Suffice it to say that the Chileans are not going to take this laying down. The largest protests since the dictatorship was ended in 1990 have been taking place over the last week, and there are more coming. Reports of up to 80,000 people on the streets in Santiago Friday night demonstrate that Chile knows that the world values Patagonia.

Follow the campaign on the International Rivers website where colleagues continue to do first class work getting the word out. We will not lose this wild corner of our spectacular planet! The world says NO to HidroAysén!