A coalition of organizations, including Greengrants grantee Trabajo de Racimos de Ungurahui, filed suit last week against Occidental Petroleum for environmental damages on indigenous lands.
Introducing Marila Lazaro of Uruguay, the newest member of our Southern Cone advisory board. This board recommends grants in Uruguay, Paraguay, Argentina, and Chile.
Father Arana of GRUFIDES, a grassroots group in Peru working on issues of extractive mining impacts, has been threatened by masked men and followed a mining company vehicle from the Yanacocha Mine, owned by Newmont Mining Corporation.
Julio Cusurichi of the Federation of Natives of the Madre de Dio River, Peru receives prestigious international environmental prize.
La Oroya, Peru is home to the Doe Run smelter and is one of the world’s most contaminated cities. Thanks to community organizing efforts, the workers’ union has gone on strike to protest the mining company’s lack of transparency and accountability.
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