Indigenous Bolivians flee homes as backlash to mining protest turns explosive

Mongabay
Apr 29, 2024, 11:23 am235 pts
Environmental activists in Bolivia say they’ve become the targets of discrimination, death threats and even bombings after speaking out against harmful mining operations in the department of Oruro. The activists, most of them women, have faced escalating violence this year because of their opposition to…

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