Meanwhile in San Marcos where Glamis Gold (Goldcorp) operates a Canadian gold mine,cyanide and heavy metals have contaminated the local water supply seriously impacting the cultivation of subsistence crops and the health of the villagers. The company is meeting with strong indigenous resistance who had voted overwhelming to keep the mine out of their territory in 2005 but was ignored........
n Columbia where mining contracts are embedded in civil rights and resistance struggles,it is common for mining projects to be accompanied by insidious threats, thefts, social and environmental destruction where local communities are expendable and complainants receive death threats.....
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