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Controversial El Quimbo dam risks becoming 'Colombia's Belo Monte.'.

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      This article discusses local resistance to the El Quimbo hydroelectric dam being built on the Magdalena River in Colombia, calling for a suspension of multinational company Emgesa S.A.'s environmental license. Topics include potential effects postulated by nonprofit organization The Nature Conservancy on the bio-diverse department of Huila, comparisons to the highly controversial Belo Monte dam construction in Brazil which will displace 40,000 indigenous people, and tensions between protest groups and Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos with threats of guerrilla insurgency infiltrations into the protest movements.