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Guatemala: Mining, the World Bank and Wolfowitz

Written byDavid Sasaki
Posted 7 January 2006 20 years ago

Rob Mercatante posts a press release by the Colectivo Ecologista MadreSelva on a meeting between World Bank president, Paul Wolfowitz and a delegation of indigenous people affected by the Glamis Gold mine in San Marcos. Mercatante has written previously about the mine.

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