Panama Explodes With Protests Against Canadian Copper Mine

Unions on strike. School classes cancelled. Workers, teachers and indigenous groups are in the streets. They’re protesting the government’s approval of a renegotiated contract with a Canadian mining firm for the operation of Central America’s largest open-pit copper mine. The copper mine is run by Canada’s First Quantum Minerals, with investors including the Chinese state,…
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Michael Fox
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