Further wikileaks reveal an even bigger “conspiracy” than earlier thought, on the part of western diplomats to undermine campaigns against mining in the Americas.
The diplomats – from the U.S., Canada, U.K., Australia, Switzerland and …
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Wikileaks reveal British and other Western diplomats target anti-mining activists
Tiara residents suffer from mining contamination, Venezuela
“Something is sickening the people of Tiara and their crops”. That’s what the Mines and Communities website reported more than five years ago.
In 2008, a study showed that Anglo American‘s Lomas de Nickel …
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Conflicts over mining: the illusory boundary between “legal” and “illegal”
It’s widely believed that “illegal” mining is only undertaken by small groups of entrepreneurs or artisanal operators. If, and when, the state cracks down on their operations, the culprits are removed (sometimes with considerable violence, …
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Indigenous communities in Venezuela seek land rights
Chief Sabino Romero is in two minds about Hugo Chávez’s socialist revolution. As the leader of a small native Indian community in the remote and lawless mountains on Venezuela’s northwestern border with Colombia, Mr Romero …
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