"The Government will not cancel the Barro Blanco hydroelectric project that develops on the river Tabasará. It is intended that international banks seek a new company to continue the work and get Genisa project.
So it was announced this Monday, May 4, 2015, at the last meeting of the roundtable on Barro Blanco, carried out in the region of Tole, Chiriqui.
There, the vice president of the Republic, Isabel de Saint Malo de Alvarado, who heads the technical committee, said the government dialogue with the banks financing the construction of hydropower to find another construction company.
Once I made the announcement of this proposal, the natives of the Ngäbe Bugle who participated in the activity decided to leave the table.
Upset that the project will not be canceled as requested, indigenous spokesmen announced they would meet to make decisions about this issue. The general cacique Silvia Carrera was one of the first to make known his total rejection of the announcement by the Government."
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