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8 Ways To Find The Best Web Design Agencies For Your…Indigenous communities have been threatened and attacked for protesting mining pollution, water scarcity and land use change in the community collective of Acre Antequera.
While protesting earlier this month against the harmful impacts of mining, several women in the community said dynamite was thrown into their homes and their children weren’t allowed to attend school. “They realize that there isn’t the same amount of water anymore, that their food is being contaminated with waste from mining activity,” said Carol Ballesteros, from the Assembly for Forests and Life, an organization that has been advocating for the communities. “This is a situation in which they’re being forcibly displaced from their territory.”
From May to November, the dry season leaves them without enough water to raise livestock and grow crops. As life becomes harder, an increasing number of residents have chosen to relocate to other parts of the country, creating concern that many cultural practices will disappear. In many mines in the area, work is done by local unions, a majority of their members coming from outside the ayllu. But two of the unions also have their own mining companies, La Salvada and Meraki. Neither of them have finished the prior consultation process legally required to begin operating, according to the Mining Administrative Jurisdictional Authority . Prior consultation involves meeting with residents to discuss future impacts.
Requests for a guaranteed safe passage back to their communities were denied this month by a department-level court. The activists also filed a complaint about the attacks with the department of Oruro, but it was rejected due to a lack of evidence. A subsequent human rights complaint filed in the capital, La Paz, with the National Ombudsman’s office is still pending.
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