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Peru's media-friendly mining ban conceals toxic inaction: Humala's 2014 ban on informal mining has made for good press, but done little for the local communities the mines pollute or the majority of mineworkers they employ

Authors :
Williams, Heather
Source :
NACLA Report on the Americas. December 22, 2014, Vol. 47 Issue 4, p58, 6 p.
Publication Year :
2014

Abstract

Speaking in Quechua, her voice thick with despair and fury, the elderly Dona Yolanda Quispe told me how the gold mines on the mountain summit above her village in Southern [...]

Details

Language :
English
ISSN :
10714839
Volume :
47
Issue :
4
Database :
Gale General OneFile
Journal :
NACLA Report on the Americas
Publication Type :
Academic Journal
Accession number :
edsgcl.404175014