National Anti-Mining Front
“If we don’t stand firm, these companies will sweep us away”: a new chapter in Ecuador’s anti-mining struggle
In June, the police harshly repressed demonstrators opposing the third-largest mining project in the country. Several social movements have denounced links between the mining company and the president’s family.
CONAIE condemns wrongful arrest of Indigenous leader Leonidas Iza by Ecuadorian security forces
Iza’s arrest came after the first day of an indefinite national strike, called by CONAIE among other Indigenous and peasant organizations against the neoliberal economic policies of President Guillermo Lasso’s government, was a success
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