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coming up next a special report on corporate greed and environmental protection. political thriller about. intimidation surrounding the u.s. gold mine.

this is sacred land killing. the waters from kalish naresh come out of the mountain hundreds of. this if they destroy kill us that one people. will die without most of our ancestors one is about this.

i'm father marco antonio i don't know as i got on. the scene i was born and come marco what it was you thought tobe a one thousand nine hundred two know your birth date me that i lived most of my life in the universities and i was taught to learn from cement schoolrooms about our brother the nature you know up in there with a lot of his who mentals you know i couldn't go to london to go to. your little bitty racial scene. when i was first again as a priest on literacy and i had the privilege of living in park on. one of peru's poorest communities over the top of your city. if you've never. been. in university they don't teach you that the earth has

eyes but the farmers know the earth has eyes you know and through its eyes the earth sees and cries if you take care of it it's happy and if you destroy it your earth cries we set out to convert the poor of us with them and we ended up being converted the farmers have worshiped the mountains for centuries the mountains provide water and water is life. but newcomers have arrived from a different world for them mountains are gone and gold this money. we. really believe you know discovered circulation some number of years ago. it's true it's a good deposit we've always been

a low cost before and want to give the maximum upside to our investors in a rising gold market every ten dollar movement in the. price of gold. increases to go on. increases our cash flow by about fifty million dollars increases our earnings by about thirty million. the miners have already destroyed several mountains with their next project is mt keeley's but the farmers to stop them.

if. that's what. the farmers flock the only road to the mine to keep the company from exploring mt keenly. yannick south america's largest gold mine is paralyzed. in number of the farmers trade unions and university students asked me to mediate interviews where you'll be able to get the government finally had to accept me as the mediator but the company always refused to let me mediate with them again.

if you provoke them. if you act like a hot shot yelling silly things. then instead of reaching the solution there will be a bloodbath. and you've got some of them will die but more poor people will die and they'll remember their dead forever but who will remember the poor so i'm asking you it's better to fight than to be contaminated. no no no no no please forget that slogan friend it's like i agree with you but it seems like you're saying kill me. we want to live or if anyone here wants to die there's a cemetery out burke i'll help you dig the hole and give them us we want to live right this is a struggle for life. yes to live no to gold.

for the first time people living in the nearby city of america join the farmers to defend mount killings was freedom for those under arrest was. here they are these are the ones who will always fight. the. now we have no more fear was was was was. was.

in general i just came out of a meeting with the city's councillors. you know i saw the protest in the main square and the police harassment going up and i didn't participate in the protest part of the people in meeting is that. i came to get a fax from the minister and saw the police beating people and throwing tear gas and . noise give us a i'm going to address the crowd of the and tell them to remain calm. because you're going to thanks general please restrain your officers now you know i'm going inside to see what i can do to get with him most of them yeah thanks general good

bye they're going to stop outside now i'm going outside. of this and there are. they threw me in i already spoke to the minister. the weights listen to me listen to me i know i saw the police and from here like you know the general is giving the order to stop but you need to stop to don't know any more stones listen to me they provoked us if you're not going to listen to me the negotiate yourselves with. the listen to me you know kind of they started this with you i saw you don't need to explain i just told the minister to stop the police because there is some people down the alley that he's going to order them to stop but you need to stop throwing stones you know who threw those stones at the police station you know i mean. if i look at it as

a. father what's happening in my ticket evil with good fight injustice with justice and not more injustice with these the violence is not force with more violence but with peace. e.c.s. the nolo those who don't understand this a looking for trouble gandalf i lead as your link that your this my beg of you i ask you in god's name strive for peace. bill defend our rights scene if we're not organized and united yanacocha is going to eat us one by one be patient you're not going to win this struggle in a day and you're fighting against the world's largest mining company.

this same plaza was the setting for one of kamarck us most famous battles the conquest of south america again here five hundred years ago. a small band of spanish invaders request a meeting with the income ruler to while. the spaniards promised they'd come in peace but it's a trial. they kidnap the nka and hold him for ransom. followers to one room with gold and two with silver for his release. but the spaniards execute out a while back and claim his empire of the spanish through. today

the market is once again the stage for a battle over gold. being a. common ordinary people. just defending our water that it was or that he did it when i. ask of the governor is that they leave us in peace.

but they don't touch the water we need for our crops and animals. but at the government because this is our livelihood. i was five i think. the blockade is in its second week and every day more people join us john. callahan market declares a general strike against the mine. as we started developing the american company newmont is the majority shareholder the vienna coach of mine. with a new mont is losing millions of dollars because of the blockade. and korea's government is under pressure to end the conflict. and. people with more going on that the government makes mistakes and the company has to admit its

pot but we have to fight until they respect our rights. the social license is extremely important to us really and in some ways over the over the legal license to operate do you ask them to stop and remove their machines this is our conflict with the. you know in hindsight sure we do a lot of things different you know where we live in a i'm not sure how much to fight with you know you don't get is that these crazies are good you know because we have to admit when not doing things as well as we thought we. were telling the government and yanacocha not to touch mt kill ish. on the finally an agreement is reached the government will revoke yannick coaches permission to explore mount kulish in exchange for an end to the blockade.

of the gentleman and all thorazine. on behalf of the population i move that we end the blockade will be able to come over to the u. . oh ivy let's do the ceremony to end the blockade not as an end to the struggle for now but as a ceremony to thank god you are going to have both of you may he send us home safely especially the delegations from far away everything that you know. i thought ok. now kili she is safe at least for the moment. father mad cow is revered as a national hero. but not everyone is in nam or with the farmers. and with the local media attacks marco and his activist organization graffiti death and the struggle of the bout began.

there marco has troubles at home his reputation outside peru is growing. he attends the mine shareholder meeting in colorado. and thousand basters and the american press about the conflicts at yanacocha. then he's invited to canada and speaks in front of ontario's parliament and what just like in canada hundreds of farmers in peru and latin america are sent to jail for defending their right to a healthy life. then dmn people's struggle to defend their land and water continues. in two thousand and six yanacocha shut down by another blockade america was called

in to mediate but this time a farmer is killed by police. yet on your mind you they called my sister and my niece answered we got on we saw it in that. they knew she was an adolescent and they said tell your uncle to stop interfering with mining issues you know that because we're going to put two bullets in his head covers but they waited until my niece was confused and hung up the phone call that i'm going to get up to someone to look at yesterday and i said they wanted to hear my niece cry live from on this. level feel i don't understand their perverse logic to threaten my sister or my niece. d.r. than us up with you. on your mind or mussolini.

come up. with the one with the. father marco isn't the only one receiving threats. here to vasco is a lawyer who helps marco and the farmers. get on line but now that that would have. died i was alone in a hotel room man and the phone ran in the middle of the night and in my case and the relief from it when the i saw it was a number from a public telephone income aka.

is this news the last kiss and i said yes. a man spoke harshly and insulted me for it it's a. sweet she said if i kept making trouble they would rape me even. kill me and cut my body into pieces. and threw them in the garbage for the dogs to eat. i hung up but he kept calling. me a year on the bridge. abutment he probably wanted to keep telling me how i was going to die.

moments with that we realized they were following everyone from early in the morning it's our business to make us let us alone and. the servants of the conductor they followed us to our homes just a lot of. families told us they were taking photos of the homes. under the sun for the if you're going to be and work places and get off. this highway goes to the village of pub young. people are saying to present

a porno they fire you with a building a school week and other road goes to the nine cd. we saw it there on the devil went to the mine because we couldn't find him on the road to pub you know. it went in the direction of the miner you know and i left him. goodbye.

the woman told the feces but give it all it was a difficult time. give a yes and you just suddenly you felt you had to be careful with everyone you know but he and even with this tree twenty years i think is if there's someone approached you with a cellphone. or with a photo or a feeder camera and you know when that them and you felt hostile towards them. or suspected that they were following you was a speech advocates upis on the style of a huge. yes again i love that i left the office and i saw a motorcycle pass and turned around wondering who's that say he. was a kid outrageous yes. yes yes. and then it doesn't suddenly if your heart begins to pound when us all so you say be calm this one though. don't give up

i better get out of here it will be fine. if you. had to d.c. and the other activists ecru feed it develop a counter espionage plan and begin to spy on the spy. who feed as members took these photos and videos of their pursuers.

if you started singing i saw a man with a video camera so i moved over and he followed me you get that bus i said what are you doing what are filming me. me and doesn't say that's when i called lucho to help me if you will you know. he went that way she said. why are you following my wife i said it was because the female let him into going is forced on me. even the man said nervously no i'm not filming anyone i don't even have a camera would we want. a police car period anyways to say you know officer

this man is following my wife and filming or i said. the first three months.

he'll. just say feasts and. fish.