Mexicans Denounce Canadian Mega-Mining Projects
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A Socialist Project e-bulletin .... No. 1497 .... October 16, 2017
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Mexicans Denounce Canadian Mega-Mining Projects
As Prime Minister Trudeau makes his first official visit to Mexico, writes Mining Watch Canada, “the Mexican Network of Mining Affected People” (REMA by its initials in Spanish) has issued a communiqué to call on Trudeau to live up to his commitments and stop the devastation of Indigenous and campesino communities that has enabled Canadian mining companies to make big profits.
“Canadian investment in Mexico -- the principal destination abroad for Canadian mining investment after the U.S. -- is expanding precisely in the most deadly places for anyone to get by on a daily basis, let alone speak out in defence of their land and wellbeing. As the future of the North American Free Trade Agreement is uncertain and Trudeau... seeks to shore up a bilateral relationship with Mexico, it's time to put words into action and answer for lives and livelihoods destroyed or at risk around Canadian mine sites.”
The text of the original communiqué follows.