Day: April 12, 2005

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Mining companies pay for siege of Cotacachi Municipality

As I write this, a group of nineteen community leaders, Parish township governments, and representatives from different Intag organizations, are trapped inside the Cotacachi Municipal building, by a few dozen pro-mining people brought by Ascendant Copper Corporation to Cotacachi. The small group is being protected by members of the national police. The trapped group includes […]

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