By Alan Clendenning ALONG THE XINGU RIVER, Brazil - Indians fish from canoes along the curves of this Amazon tributary and tend manioc crops near the site of a proposed dam talked about for decades - but now pushing forward under Brazil's multi-billion-dollar construction spree.

By Daniel Howden A Catholic bishop in the third week of a hunger strike against a 1.8bn plan to divert one of Brazil's largest rivers has collapsed after learning that the project will go ahead.

By TALES AZZONI SAO PAULO, Brazil - Thousands of landless workers invaded government property in Brazil's arid northeast to try to stop a controversial river-diversion project, a spokeswoman for the group said Sunday.

New power plant to benefit over 130,000 people in south central Brazil RIO DE JANEIRO, June 8 (Xinhua) -- A new hydropower plant went into operation in Brazil's central state of Minas Gerais on Thursday, providing electricity for about 132,000 customers in the north of the state.

By Mario Osava RIO DE JANEIRO, Oct. 4, 2005 (IPS/GIN) -- More than 5,000 people demonstrated Tuesday in support a Brazilian bishop on a hunger strike to oppose a plan to divert water from the Sao Francisco River to the country's semiarid northeast.