Tag: Diaguita community

• Wednesday, June 25th 2014 - 06:28 UTC

  Bachelet promises to buy and return disputed lands to Chile's tribes

  

  President Michelle Bachelet announced a plan to buy and return disputed ancestral lands to Chile's indigenous communities as part of a strategy to better incorporate them into the country's political process and economic development.

• Wednesday, November 6th 2013 - 01:38 UTC

  Piñera joins the Pascua Lama gold mine project fray and points to Barrick Gold

  

  Chilean President Sebastián Piñera has entered the fray surrounding Barrick Gold’s decision to temporarily suspend construction on its troubled Pascua Lama gold mine which straddles up in the Andes along Chile and Argentina, a move which activists slammed as a ploy.

• Saturday, August 10th 2013 - 02:10 UTC

  Indigenous peoples in Argentina: “we don’t want to be considered strangers in our own country”

  

  “We want to live as human beings. We don’t want to be considered as strangers in our own country, poor or useless. We want to live without discrimination. We don’t want blood shed, we just want to reclaim our community,” said to Amnesty International Félix Díaz, leader of the Qom indigenous community of Potae Napocna Navogoh (La Primavera), in Argentina’s northern province of Formosa.

• Tuesday, July 16th 2013 - 03:50 UTC

  Chilean court suspends major 8.5bn dollars gold development project in the Andes

  

  A Chilean appeals court on Monday formally suspended Barrick Gold Corp’s controversial 8.5 dollars billion Pascua-Lama gold mine until the company meets environmental standards and builds infrastructure that will prevent water pollution.