Ecuadorian Communities Resist State-Backed Mining Project Tied to Presidential Family - teleSUR English
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Ecuadorian Communities Resist State-Backed Mining Project Tied to Presidential Family - teleSUR English
In a country that granted constitutional rights to nature and voted to protect its rainforests from oil drilling, rural Ecuadorians are now resisting one of the nation’s largest mining projects. Residents of Las Naves say the El Domo mine, backed by a corporation linked to President Daniel Noboa’s family, threatens their water, land, and way of life. RELATED: Venezuela and Colombia Establish Binational Peace and Economic Zone Ecuador is known fo…
The native communities of the Peruvian jungle denounce that illegal mining not only contaminates their territory, but that their criminal networks threaten the lives of those who oppose them or buy the consciences of their leaders.All this, in view of the passivity of the State and even the complicity of the authorities.This was what three leaders of these communities told RPP: Lizardo Cauper Pezzo, president of the Shipibo-Conibo Council; José …
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