The copper-gold project, located in the Las Naves canton, is being developed by Curimining S.A., a joint venture between Canada’s Adventus Mining (TSX-V: ADZN) and Salazar Resources (TSX-V: SRL). The miner obtained an environmental permit from the Ministry of Environment, Water and Ecological Transition of Ecuador back in January, after 27 months of paperwork and consultations.
Since Curimining was behind the complaint against the six activists, CEDHU’s communiqué criticized what it called the “abusive use of criminal law” to punish the actions of Indigenous and farming groups pushing to protect communities’ water resources, nature and human rights.
“This has become a systematic modus operandi of the Ecuadorian State which, instead of creating a protection system that guarantees the legitimate right to defend human rights, enables and even promotes this type of abusive practices that hinder the actions of community…
