Nicaraguan Regime Hands Out Mining Concessions in Indigenous Territories
In its report, Nicaragua and its Perverse Gold, the River Foundation (Fundación del Río), a Nicaraguan nongovernmental organization that promotes environmental conservation, found a disproportionate increase in mining concessions under the Daniel Ortega-Rosario Murillo regime. This gold rush, the report indicates, undermines indigenous and Afro-descendant territories, as well as the Indio Maíz Biological Reserve in the southeast, and the Bosawás Biosphere Reserve in the northeast of the country.
Source: dialogo-americas.com