Mining Conflict in Ecuador Heats Up
Published in Upside Down World, an online magazine uncovering activism and politics in Latin America.Written by Cyril Mychalejko Wednesday, 21 December 2005 Excerpt:Dozens of Ecuadorians recently burnt down a building owned by Ascendant Copper Corporation to protest its mining activities in the area. The Canadian mining company claimed in a press release that the structure […]
Read MoreInternational Human Rights Observer Report: The Events in Chalguayaco Bajo on Dec. 10, 2005
An eyewitness report by one of the International Observers of December 10, 2005.On December 10, 2005 I served as an international human rights observer in the community of Chalguayacu Bajo in the Intag Region of Ecuador. In light of the events of that day, in which a building owned by the Ascendant Mining Corporation was […]
Read MoreAscedant Goes After Campesinos: 21 Dec 2005
Ascendant Going After Campesinos: December 21, 2005 I have in my hands a copy of the company’s legal denouncement in which it asks District Attorney (Prosecutor) to initiate investigations of the events of Saturday the 10th. The document is signed by the company’s legal representative (General Manager in Ecuador), Juan Carlos Bermeo. In the 2 […]
Read More20 Campesinos in Intag to be Interrogated
Sat. 17 Dec. Yesterda, Ascendant succeeded in asking Imabura’s attorney general to start criminal investigation of the burning of their camp in Chalguayacu Bajo by serving notices in Intag to 12 people presumed to be present at the event. We’ll give you all their names in the future, but from preliminary information, it includes all […]
Read MoreNEWS RELEASE: DESTRUCTION OF ASCENDANT COPPER CORPORATION’S CAMP
Due to the different versions going around regarding what happened in Chalguayacu Bajo, Cotacachi County, Ecuador, this past 10 of December 2005, in which the Ascendant mining camp was completely destroyed, we wish to let our point of view, based on the truth, be known. In the act more than 300 local people from approximately […]
Read MoreACTION ALERT: Ask President Palacios to Reject the Junín Mining Project
Please email, fax and mail President Palacios by using our sample letter and writing your own thoughts about why you want him to reject Junín mining project and investigate the long-term implications to the forests of the Toisan Range, for the local communities, county of Cotacachi, and the area’s natural resources, and to Ecuador. Sample […]
Read MoreINTAG’S COMMUNITIES SAY ENOUGH!
Communities in Intag Take Direct Measures Against Ascendant’s Mining Facilities. Saturday, 10 December 2005Over three hundred community members from approximately 20 communities in the Intag area of Ecuador gathered together at the village of Chalguayacu Bajo in a community Assembly, and voted unanimously to burn down the facilities belonging to Ascendant Copper Corporation, as a […]
Read MoreUpdate Friday 9 December
Saturday, 9 december- Report from Junín today : two police showed up at the community road block to investigate a confrontation that took place earlier in the week when two ministry of the environment officials tried to go into community reserve with a known land trafficker. The police were driven in a Ascendant Copper Corporation […]
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