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LatinNews Daily - 04 June 2018

In brief: Ecuador

Ecuador: Justice Paúl Serrano, who sits on a local court in Azuay province, has issued a ruling suspending the Río Blanco mining project in the province. Serrano ruled in favour of a local civil-society group Confederación de la Nacionalidad Kichwa del Ecuador (Ecuarunari), which brought the case to court. Judge Serrano decided that the Río Blanco mining concession had been granted to Ecuagoldmining, a Chinese company, without the prior consultation with the community or the environmental consultation required by Ecuador’s 2008 constitution.

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