Tambogrande: Mangoes, Murder, Mining

Peru, 2007, 85 mins
Director: Ernesto Cabellos and Stephanie Boyd
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In 1999 the residents of Tambogrande, a small town in northern Peru, learned that their government had secretly granted mining concessions on their land to a Vancouver- based mining corporation. The company's plans for an open pit gold mine would involve the relocation of half the town's residents and contaminate the soil and ground water in this agricultural region famous for its fruit orchards.
Aware of the environmental and health consequences of a gold mining operation in another Peruvian town Choropampa,
the residents of Tambogrande organized to protect their community. With remarkable access to their struggle to oppose the mine despite fear, violence and death, the film Tambogrande documents their five year struggle to save their town.

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