Communities in Argentina and Chile Protest While Barrick Gold’s Shareholders Meet in Toronto
News release from the Latin American Observatory of Environmental Conflicts (OLCA), Santiago Anti-Pascua Lama Coordination, the Northern Chile Environmental Network, and the Huasco Valley Defence Council: Protests against Barrick Gold’s massive Pascua Lama project are taking place in the southern cone timed to coincide with the company’s Annual General Meeting in Toronto. In Buenos Aires, Santiago, San Juan, and Vallenar, communities are demonstrating against Barrick’s impacts on nature, people and democracy. They have released this open letter written to the attention of Barrick Gold’s shareholders.