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On March 8, 2012 several hundred Indigenous people began a two week march across Ecuador to call attention to their protest of a large-scale open-pit copper mine. Ecuacorriente, a Chinese company, has been authorized by the Correa government to develop a mine near El Pangui, Zamora-Chinchipe Province, in the southern part of the country.
By Hartman Deetz (Mashpee Wampanoag)
By Bobbie Chew Bigby (Cherokee)
By Phoebe Farris (Powhatan-Pamunkey)
By Bryan Bixcul (Maya Tz’utujil, CS Staff)
By CS Staff