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The Unglitter of Gold

December 13, 2011 – 5:55 am

Last week Peru’s president suspended civil rights in a northern Andean region after a series of protests had shut down the development of a new gold mine. The locals had resisted the government’s attempts to aid Newmont Mining to exploit the region’s watershed for their project and the politicians have responded to the the violence […]

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