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Peru: Green light for Marañon dams?
Bad news: the government has approved the energy companies' environmental impact report.
Pope Francis: A chalice to regret?
A Canadian mining company has offered to make a chalice for the new Pope, using silver from a controversial mine in Patagonia
Mining in Latin America: deepening contradictions
Governments of right and left are welcoming large scale mining, but the social and environmental costs are mounting and communities are less inclined to suffer them