Brazil Indians Block Workers at Hydroelectric Site
Filed at 9:51 p.m. ET
SAO PAULO (AP) -- About 300 Amazon Indians prevented workers from entering or leaving the construction site of a hydroelectric plant that protesters say is on an ancient burial ground, Brazil's official news agency said Sunday.
Indians from eight tribes taking part in the protest are demanding compensation for losses caused by construction of the Dardanelos plant in the southern Amazon city of Aripuana, according to Agencia Brasil.
''They want a sustainable program in the region to make up for their losses in this archaeological site,'' Brazil's national Indian bureau coordinator, Antonio Carlos Ferreira Aquino, told the news agency.
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