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Ecuador indigenous leader found dead days before Lima protest
2014-12-07 00:03:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: The body of an indigenous leader who was opposed to a major mining project in Ecuador has been found bound and buried, days before he planned to take his campaign to climate talks in Lima. The killing highlights the violence and harassment facing environmental activists in Ecuador, following the confiscation earlier this week of a bus carrying climate campaigners who planned to denounce president Rafael Correa at the United Nations conference. The victim, José Isidro Tendetza Antún, a former vice-president...
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