Despite company statements that community relations around Pascua Lama have improved with the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Diaguita Indigenous communities in 2014, a report published by MiningWatch Canada and the Latin American Observatory of Environmental Conflicts (OLCA) indicates that Barrick’s MOU undermined the ongoing resistance of Indigenous and non-Indigenous residents to this project. The report is based on testimonies from the Huasco Valley, in Chile’s northern Atacama region, that were gathered by anthropologist Adrienne Wiebe. The testimonies state that the process to develop the MOU was confusing and manipulative, and lacked the full support of communities that signed on. In the case of one Diaguita community, Sierra de Huachacan, the divisions created as a result of the MOU having been signed without the consent of the whole community gave rise to three Diaguita organizations where before there was one...