Madre Tierra: Indigenous Environmental Defenders in Latin America Are Fighting For Their Land
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Along the Pacific Coast of Mexico, in the indigenous community of Santa María de Ostula in the state of Michoacán, the Sierra Mancira mountain range rises. Hernán Cortés, the Spanish conquistador who toppled the Aztecs, had mined these very mountains for gold five centuries earlier. Global mining companies covet the minerals buried here, and the indigenous Nahua community in Ostula has been forced to protect their forests.Cartels have routinely launched drones carrying C-4 explosives at them fro
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