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Indigenous communities resist Chinese mining in Amazonian Ecuador

• https://news.mongabay.com, by Max Nathanson

The Mirador and Panantza-San Carlos open-pit copper mines are run by Ecuacorriente S.A. (ECSA) and owned by the Chinese consortium CRCC-Tongguan. The two mines are located in the Cordillera del Cóndor region and within the Shuar indigenous territory.

Charges lodged against the government and Chinese consortium include displacement of 116 indigenous people, the razing of the town of San Marcos de Tundayme, escalating violence including the death of Shuar leader José Tendetza, discrimination, intimidation, threats, and worsening environmental degradation.

President Lenin Moreno's administration has so far made no response to the Gualaquiza accusations or the demand for redress of grievances filed by the tribunal's leaders.


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