"It electrified this South American country even as it drowned a jungle, so the 1.2-mile-long dam Alcoa built here to harness the Suriname River is more than stone and turbines. It’s a symbol, in this tropical land of 560,000, of progress, trauma and a global company’s ability to dominate a little country’s landscape and society. Now the Alcoa Corp. is leaving Suriname, and the Afobaka Dam’s future rivets everyone from the capital’s dealmakers to the forest’s subsistence farmers." - The land Alcoa dammed. Link to our story in our bio. #Alcoa #Pittsburgh #PGH #412 #SurinameRiver #SouthAmerica #AfobakaDam #PGPhotos