Miners from Canada and the United States control 80% of the territory in the Oaxaca Valley

Miners from Canada and the United States control 80% of the territory in the Oaxaca Valley

In the middle of October, the Juicio Popular y Comunitario Contra el Estado y las Empresas Mineras (People’s Trail against the State and the Mining Companies) was carried out in Oaxaca City, Mexico. The participating organizations denounce that in the Central Valleys, the most populated region in the state, 80% of the territory is awarded to mining companies from Canada and the United States.

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An indigenous nation in the industrialized heart of South America

An indigenous nation in the industrialized heart of South America

The regions in the south and southeast of Brazil are the richest areas in the country and the most industrialized in Latin America. The southeast alone is responsible for 60% of GDP, and thus, in this region 90% of the population is concentrated in urban zones. In this geography of modernity there is also an indigenous territory that is in its death throes, the land of the Guaraní.

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Biío Hioxo Wind Energy Project Hurting Indigenous Peoples and their Territories

Biío Hioxo Wind Energy Project Hurting Indigenous Peoples and their Territories

The chickens run between the rows of crops at Don Celestino Bartolo’s ranch, a farmer who wipes the sweat from his brow after sowing what may be his last harvest of corn. Rosalino, his son, milks his cows and points with sadness toward the place where they used to fish. A huge wind turbine stands there now–one of 117 installed by the company Gas Natural Fenosa.

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