
“Not all that glitters is gold.”It's a cliché, but it takes on a whole new meaning when you are sitting across from a member of the Diaguita Huascoaltinos indigenous community in Chile who says that his people are facing a genocide if Canadian mining interests in his region have their way.The words came from Sergio Campusano, a representative of the Comunidad Agricola Huascoaltinos, who was in Montreal for the Permanent Peoples' Tribunal (TPP) hearings on the Canadian mining industry's impact in Latin America—not to be confused with the clandestine, multi-national trade agreement that is still being negotiated. Campusano was one of the 20 witnesses from the Americas and Europe who came to testify to the Canadian mining industry's disastrous impacts in the southern hemisphere, and how Canadian and host governments have colluded to protect them.
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