Raquel Yrigoyen, a lawyer who has represented Juprog villagers pro bono, said “you won’t find (cases) against big companies that systematically pollute — that endanger public health.”
Environmentalists say they cannot get a fair hearing in Peru, so they take their cases abroad. One such case ended in an out-of-court settlement in Denver, Colorado, when Newmont Mining Corp., majority owner of the Yanacocha gold mine, paid an undisclosed sum to townspeople poisoned by mercury in a 2000 spill.
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