The growing role of Canadian mining companies across Latin America
has been put under the spotlight at the Inter-American Commission on
Human Rights (IACHR) in Washington following the presentation of a
damning report.
Mining operations by Canadian firms across nine Latin American
countries are causing "serious environmental impacts" by destroying
glaciers, contaminating water and rivers, and cutting down forest,
according to the report, as well as forcibly displacing people, dividing
and impoverishing communities, making false promises about economic
benefits, endangering people’s health, and fraudulently acquiring
property. Some who protest such projects have been killed or seriously
wounded, it states, and others persecuted, threatened or accused of
being terrorists.
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