Tambogrande: Mangoes, Murder, Mining

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UBC (Vancouver)
Wednesday November 7, 2007
Screening begins 19h00
Venue: The Norm Theatre, UBC Student Union Building

Canada-Peru / 2007 / 85min

In 1999, the residents of Tambogrande, a small town in northern Peru, learned that the Fujimori government had secretly granted mining concessions on their land to the multi-national corporation, Manhattan Minerals. In the ongoing history of attempts by multi-national corporations to exploit Latin America's natural resources, TAMBOGRANDE is a rare success story, on demonstrating how ordinary people can defeat government and corporate collusion, and one that has already become an inspiration to other popular political movements across the continent.

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