Second Place
Tomas Munita
Freelance for The New York Times
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"DAM PROJECT THREATENS A WAY OF LIFE IN PERU"
This Gazan university student works in a tunnel, hauling goods to earn moWith encroachment from settlers and speculators, and after a devastating war against Shining Path rebels a decade ago, the indigenous Ashaninkas’ hold is precarious. And they are now facing a new peril, the proposed 2,200-megawatt Pakitzapango hydroelectric dam, which would flood much of the Ene River valley. The project is part of a proposal for as many as five dams that under a 2010 energy agreement would generate more than 6,500 megawatts, primarily for export to neighboring Brazil. The dams would displace thousands of people in the process.
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Victoria Kubirinketu, an Ashaninka woman, walks back to her village after collecting bananas and a banana flower (in her hands). She lives in Tsiquireni, a village just below the area where Pakitzapango dam is planned to be built.
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