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Leer en español The locally known waters of the northern Andes of Cajamarca, Lagunas, flows through the rolling grasslands dotted with cold and shallow lakes. In Peru’s rural areas, they are the only source of life. For decades, families have depended on the Lagunas for drinking, watering crops, and raising livestock. But over the past twenty years, those lakes have turned into one of Peru’s sites for environmental conflicts. Women had been at the center of this crisis. Women defending water Image: Máxima Acuña. Source: New Internationalist Máxima Acuña, a peasant farmer who lives with her family in the highlands of northern Peru to rear animals and grow crops, has become a point for resistance when one of Latin America’s largest mining companies tried to expand its operations into her region. The Conga Project, led by Minera Yanacocha, was designed to extract gold and copper from deposits in Acuña’s network of high altitude lakes. To do that, the plan involved draining the lake’s water and replacing them with artificial reservoirs. But for the community, the move was unacceptable. …
El humo no siempre es visible. A veces se filtra lentamente, como una advertencia ignorada durante…