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Inter Press Service: "No one will pay for the damages when work at the mine has finished," says María del Rosario Velásquez, who lives in a town near the Oasis mine 100 km southeast of the Guatemalan capital.
The Canada-based Tahoe Resources company plans to extract gold, silver, zinc and lead from the mine.
Velásquez is not so sure that the mine will bring benefits to her hometown, San Rafael Las Flores. But she is sure of the risks that it poses to the environment.
"We know it will cause a great deal of pollution,......
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“Only the Mayor Will Benefit from the Mine”
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on February 15th, 2012
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