Bolivia: Indigenous peoples denounce negative impacts by oil and energy industries
…Testimonies from three regions in the country, in the voices of indigenous peoples, inform of a strong opposition to mining, hydro-carbon and mega hydroelectric dams’ projects...The political authority of the Turco…reported…that…the Cuprita I mine [part of] Chinese company Yan Fan SA [a joint venture of Yunnan Chihong Zinc & Germanium, part of Yunnan Metallurgical Group, part of China Metallurgical], under the name of “D’Cobre”, develops Cuprita II, under the modality of open-pit mining…with heavy environmental impacts…