Division, destruction, corruption and misery:

the cycle of gold
mining in Ecuador

This series of three stories explains, through voices from the Amazon, the cycle, structure and operation of mining in Ecuador. Academics and specialists on the subject agree that there is no mining without violence because it implies a dispute over territory. From the intimacy of the communities to the national data on the importance of the extractive industry, this trilogy investigates, explores and extracts different points of view on gold mining in this Amazonian country based on three different areas in the province of Napo where mining has grown 907% between 2011 and 2021.

Divided by gold

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Napo is dying amid new mining operations and lack of government control

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Land and Blood

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