Embera fear complete extinction of culture

On 2009/07/04, in Culture, Economy, by Kate Warburton

embera_passport2Conflicts of interests between multinationals and indigenous groups are not only confined to legal debate over property rights. If you ask the indigenous Embera in Choco, their fight against a mining project isn’t just a conflict about their legal ownership of the land, but a project that threatens to completely demolish their culture.

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