Ivonne Ramos

Violence surrounds Canadian mining projects in Ecuador

Viviana Herrera and Ivonne Ramos / August 4, 2023 / 6 min read

Two Canadian mining companies have drawn the ire of activists and Indigenous groups in Ecuador, where the government is using Toronto-based Adventus Mining’s Curipamba copper-gold project in Las Naves and Atico Mining’s La Plata project in Sigchos as test sites to impose a new and controversial process for environmental consultation under Decree 754.

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