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Indigenous Resistance to Mega-mining in Ecuador with Andrea Sempértegui and Michelle Báez Aristizábal

Indigenous Resistance to Mega-mining in Ecuador with Andrea Sempértegui and Michelle Báez Aristizábal

Update: 2025-04-18
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Andrea Sempértegui is a professor of Politics at WhitmanCollege, Washington State, and Michelle Báez Aristizábal is a professor at the Pontifical Catholic University of Ecuador. They are both academics and activists who have carried out research on Indigenous resistance to a mega-mining project called Mirador in Ecuador’s southern Amazon.  This episode discusses the environmental cost of the mining project and how it has impacted Indigenous communities and their relationship with land.  Andrea and Michelle also discuss their membership of an anti-extractive collective in Ecuador called Comunalisis.

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Indigenous Resistance to Mega-mining in Ecuador with Andrea Sempértegui and Michelle Báez Aristizábal

Indigenous Resistance to Mega-mining in Ecuador with Andrea Sempértegui and Michelle Báez Aristizábal

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