many c as crucial to the very survival that after panama supreme court declared a 20 year plus the contract for the corporate upon them, a compromise unconstitutional. and president that went to newport, the so called for an immediate closing of the site. the black ink and staples united as soon as we receive the former communication of the ruling from the supreme court of justice. it will be immediately published in the official gives that to the customer and we will start the transition period to shut down the mine in an orderly and safe fashion. i don't see it on the order then. oh, you said, what do i mean? the open pit mine owned by canada's 1st quantum minerals is located in a bio diverse jungle near the atlantic coast. it has employed thousands and accounts for 3 per cent of panama as gross domestic product. just recently, the canadian owner had agreed to pay the state at least $375000000.00 annually. not enough for environmental is to look past the damage. the copeland kind of my mind would have done to the forest at coastal area and to local water supplies for the today, we know th

panama's president said tuesday a contested foreign-owned, open-pit copper mine that's been at the center of recent massive nationwide protests would be shut down. the announcement came just hours after the panamanian supreme court ruled that a 20-year contract approved by panama's government with the mine earlier this year is unconstitutional. protesters had said the new contract for the cobre panamÁ mine, which is owned by canada's first quantum minerals, was fast-tracked with little public input or transparency. >> mining is another expression of the rising corruption in the country. it is a clear message to future governors of the country that we will not allow more impositions and corruption that restrict the sovereignty of the panamanian people. amy: the coppermine is the largest in central america. in a major victory for indigenous rights, an ecuadorian appeals court has sided with the siekopai nation to regain ownership of their ancestral homeland in the amazon rainforest. the siekopai people were forced out of their territory called pË'kËya over 80 years ago during the peru-ecuador war in the 1940's. this ruling will mark the first time the ecuadorian government grants a land title to an indigenous comm