The Babilônia Centro project will feature 123 wind turbines, with an installed capacity of 553.5 megawatts (MW) and estimated energy generation of 267 average MW.
The move comes after the killing of Candomblé priestess and quilombo leader Maria Bernadete Pacífico, a.k.a. Mãe Bernadete, killed last Thursday inside her home. Today, the state in Northeast Brazil has 94 human rights advocates under protection.
Introduced to Brazil by the Europeans during the colonial period, these festivals originally took place mainly in June but now extend to August in some places.
Since June last year, indigenous communities have been facing continuous violence such as threats, armed sieges, shootings in the communities, as well as defamation.
According to the organizers of the event, the local population is largely from the miscegenation with the Pataxó indigenous ethnicity, which is why the choice of the village of Caraíva and indigenous literature for the festival.
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