Father Marco Arana (pictured here with Bianca Jagger), the Catholic priest who supports indigenous Peruvians in protecting their eco-system in opposition to foreign mining companies, received the Cinema for Peace Human Rights Award.
Arana and the surveillance operation and intimidation campaign mounted against him are the subjects of Stephanie Boyd’s (CHOROPAMPA, TAMBOGRANDE, co-directed with Ernesto Cabellos) Continue Reading

At Hot Docs in Toronto, North America’s largest documentary festival, The Devil Operation received two standing ovations at sold-out screenings. Each presentation had over 300 people in attendance and the festival invited Father Marco to present the film. This August the film premiered in Asia at Korea’s prestigious EIDF festival, held by the country’s public Continue Reading

Message from Danielle Bernstein (co-director of WHEN CLOUDS CLEAR)
 
  “URGENT: Dear Friends–
I just received an email from Carlos Zorrilla from Intag region, Ecuador. He reports the bad news that the nightmare scenario in the struggle against mining is now in play. The Ecuadorian government, which owns the Junin…concessions, is moving forward with plans to develop the Continue Reading

Photo Credit: Satellite image of Cerro de Pasco, Google Maps
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Cerro de Pasco is located in the Andes mountains in central Peru. Spanish conquerers established this area as a mining town in 1578. Its centuries long silver and zinc production has made the city one of the most important mining areas in the world – similar Continue Reading

Source: Rights Action
Mark your calendars: March 25, 2010 is a good day to go to a public hearing in court.  Ecuadorians are suing the Canadian Mining Company and the Toronto Stock Exchange. Toronto lawyers are bringing a civil suit against the Toronto Stock Exchange and directors of the Copper Mesa mining company, promising to put Continue Reading

The FDCL is an information and communication center for people and groups who want to learn more about Latin America or get involved with Latin America-related issues. The FDCL has been in existence since 1974 and is well-known far beyond the borders of Berlin. The online streams are available at all times and are accessible Continue Reading

We, the FDCL, are film partners at realeyz.tv for two documentary films about Peru, Choropampa- The Price of Gold and Tambogrande - Mangos, Murder, Mining. We’re going to break the realeyz.tv blog guidelines a little by writing a somewhat longer article than usual as our first post. We’re not going to bore but we think Continue Reading