China’s Mining Voracity Kills Indigenous Communities in Nicaragua · Global Voices

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Francis saw that the men dressed in orange vests entered his community accompanied by police armed with rifles by the regime of Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo. It was late January and the uniformed men, without a warrant, told the neighbors of Barrio 19 de Julio, in the Caribbean municipality of Rosita — one of Nicaragua’s major mining districts — that part of their land now belongs to the Santa Rita Mining Company, a Chinese mining company t…

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* An investigation by Open Record and Rio Foundation reveals that Chinese companies control 8.5% of Nicaraguan territory. * The Ortega-Murillo regime reformed environmental and mining laws to centralize power, evade U.S. sanctions, and facilitate massive concessions to its allies. * The study found strange exports of minerals, as they occurred without State-authorized companies to carry out such operations.Public Record I OF II DELIVERY Metal mi…