A coalition of environmentalists, indigenous people, and social movements in Brazil condemned the news that an environmental license was issued yesterday by the Brazilian environmental agency (IBAMA) for the Belo Monte Hydroelectric Dam... The massive project would...[threaten] the survival of indigenous peoples…Two senior IBAMA [Brazilian Environmental agency] officials resigned last November after claiming that they had been subjected to political pressure to approve the license…[S]ix environmental analysts from IBAMA voic[ed] concern that Belo Monte's impacts to the Xingu river basin and riverine and indigenous communities had not been adequately studied…Indigenous peoples have been fighting against the project for more than 20 years...