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A verification mission on the effects of mining against the Food Sovereignty and the criminalization of social protest worked days in counties close to the Ecuadorian city of Cuenca, where from June 21 this is done the Continental Yale Anya Peoples in Defense of Water and Pachamama.

The Canadian firm IAMGOLD, who won the award of exploration and exploitation of gold deposits in the desert of Kimsacocha, appears as the main threat to water sources in the third metropolis of Ecuador. Although not the only one.

However, experience not so distant in time has enabled communities to know the harmful effects of mining to food production and access to irrigation water and drinking water. And based on that, articulated their resistance.

This was reported to people in neighboring parishes as Torque Cuenca, Groin, and Cochapata, Santa Isabel and San Juan de Goalies the members of the Verification Mission on the Right to Food and the criminalization of social protest.

This working group was composed of members of the organization FIAN Ecuador, the coordinator of the Continental Shelf of Human Rights Pablo De la Vega and journalists from Radio Undo Real.

The preliminary report of the tour will be presented this Tuesday under the Continental Encounter of the Peoples of Anya Yale in defense of Mother Earth and water and spread internationally with a documentary that brings together various accounts.

The meeting also brings together a panel of international integration of ethics to consider the cases of criminalization against the defenders of the right and water as a human right.

Cañar said Arnulfo respect to Real World Radio in his parish, St. Bartholomew, “in our parish and have experience with a miner who worked here 20 years ago and still suffer the consequences. To be silent would be part of mine. ”

The silver mining and minerals for the production of pottery literally poisoned their water sources until the business ceased to be profitable and the company dropped its facilities, leaving a puddle that cannot be used for water harvesting due to high levels of heavy metals it contains.