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12 Feb 2007

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Catholic News

Spies bedevil Peruvian environmental priest

A Peruvian security firm has launched a campaign of spying and intimidation against environmental activists and priests...according to documents revealed by a local newspaper. Using the codename "Operation Devil", the Peruvian firm, C&G Investigaciones, spied on and filmed staff and sympathisers of the organisation Grufides, a [NGO] in...Cajamarca that promotes sustainable development, according to a report in national newspaper, La Republica. The firm reportedly handed over the results of the spying to the security firm Forza, which provides services to Yanacocha, a subsidiary of...Newmont Mining Corporation [and Buenaventura]...Fr Arana...and his colleague attorney Mirtha Vasquez have been alerting the public to environmental damage caused by the Yanacocha mine for years...Forza...denied any link to "Operacion El Diablo" or to C&G Investigaciones...Last August, campesino Isidro Llanos was gunned down in clashes between the company [Yanacocha] and residents of the nearby town of Combayo, following the mine's announcement that it planned to expand operations in the area.