How One Indigenous Woman Took On a Multinational Mining Corporation... And Won

Published on



Friday, December 19, 2014



by

Common Dreams


How One Indigenous Woman Took On a Multinational Mining Corporation... And Won




Indigenous Peruvian farmworker Maxima Acu�a de Chaupe withstood violent eviction attempts, beatings, and a legal battle to protect her land from being turned into an open-pit gold mine





by


Sarah Lazare, staff writer







Acu�a de Chaupe at