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- # **EXPULSIONS**
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- forced displacements and archaeological destruction by the mega-mining project Mirador in the Ecuadorian Amazonia.
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- There is a war going on over Amazonia. This is a conflict for the appropriation of the forest’s underground territory, which is as rich in mineral commodities as the forest’s aboveground is rich in fauna and flora. This is no even battle. It is disproportionally fought by powerful corporations in collision with state agents against local indigenous and peasant communities who stewardship the land and from the land make their livelihoods.
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- This investigation examines the case of Project Mirador, a mega-mine development led by Chinese corporation Ecuacorriente in the region of the Cordillera del Cóndor, Shuar ancestral territory, one of the most biologically rich regions of the Amazon basin.
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- For Project Mirador to be implemented, indigenous and peasant communities have been expropriated of their lands and evicted from their homes. Vast swaths of forests and numerous indigenous archaeological sites have been destroyed.
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- These multiple forms of violence – social, cultural, ecological – are intimately tied to the ways global extraction industries are appropriating indigenous lands across South America and beyond.
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- content: Mining, illegal or legal, is widespread throughout Amazonia, happening at both small and large scales. It is estimated that mining concessions [covers 21% of the total surface of the Amazon basin.](https://issuu.com/darperu/docs/megaproyectos_ingles_final) This is equivalent of imagining a territory over twice larger than Spain, predominantly formed by primary forests and innumerable freshwater streams, completely zoned for extraction – a mega-mine operating on planetary scale.
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- content: Mining blocks often overlap with demarcated and non-demarcated indigenous territories, communal lands and ecological reserves, generating conflicts over land and water with local communities. According to the project [Environmental Justice Atlas](https://ejatlas.org/), there current exists at least 56 water and land conflicts related to mining in the Amazon basin.
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- content: Mining concessions cover about 11% of the Ecuadorian territory. They are mainly concentrate in the southern flank of the Amazon region. These concessions are in conflict with indigenous territories and protected ecological reserves.
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- content: This massive push in the mining frontier in Ecuador is driven by several projects of “mega-mining.” Three ofthem – Mirador, San Carlos-Panantza, and Frutal del Norte – are situated next to each other in region of the Cordillera del Cóndor mountain range in Shuar ancestral territory, south of the Ecuadorian Amazon.
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- content: Spanning over one million hectares along the border between Ecuador and Peru, the Cordillera del Cóndor is one of the most singular ecological niches of Amazonia. The Cóndor is also unique because of the millenary cultural history of this territory. These mountains sit in the ancestral land of the peoples belonging to the [Jivaroan language](https://www.worldcat.org/search?q=no%3A956353428), which is formed by Shuar, Achuar, Awajún (Aguaruna) and Wampis (Huambisa) peoples. Before colonization these nations had their own geopolitical organization, with different borders and routes of connection and exchange. Today their territory is divided by the border between Ecuador and Peru, with Shuar and Achuar communities living in the Ecuadorian side, and Awajún and Wampis groups living in the Peruvian side.
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- description: Photo documentation of the bi-lateral commission in charge of demarcating the border between Peru and Ecuador after the War of ’41. Situated to the south of the Ecuadorian Amazon, the border along the Cordillera del Cóndor mountain range remained undefined until the 1990s.
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- Starting with the War of ’41, until the Cenepa War of 1995, Peru and Ecuador fought for more than fifty years over the Cordillera del Cóndor. In the 1960s and 1970s, when both countries were under military dictatorships, governments sought to secure sovereignty over the disputed territory by fostering occupation through migration and colonization policies. This led to dramatic changes in the social geography of the region as indigenous territories were severely reduced; new villages, towns and roads were built; and forests were rapidly replaced by farm and pasture lands. 
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- In the context of the neoliberal adjustments of the 1980s and 1990s, state-led projects of agricultural colonization were replaced by a different doctrine of border security that relied on corporate mining concessions as means to hold ground in the disputed territory. But until this moment, because of the decades-long military conflict, the Cordillera del Cóndor region was practically inaccessible, remaining protected from the encroachment of development projects. 
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- The post-war peace agreements drafted in 1998 led to the creation of several reserves and parks across the border area, composing a mosaic of protected jurisdictions known as “peace parks.” Besides, vast areas on both sides of the border have been recognized as indigenous lands. Since the establishment of the Shuar Federation in the late 1960s in Ecuador, the Shuar people have mobilized to recuperate communal territories and sacred sites. Moreover, in the early 1990s Ecuador witnessed the [largest indigenous uprising in its modern history](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HVp0Q3B2ans), which resulted in a series of landmark territorial recognitions.
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- The Mirador project holds a concession of 2.994 hectares that occupies the entire area between the Tundayme and the Wawayme rivers. The Chinese–consortium led by Ecuacorriente also acquired rights to explore all other adjacent concessions to Mirador, being effectively in control of a territory larger than the urban area of the city of Barcelona. These concessions superimpose shuar territories and ecological protection areas.
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- Mega-mining operations like project Mirador require the exploration of vast extensions of land to be economically viable and profitable. This is only possible through massive territorial enclosures, separating entire communities from land and water resources. As the history of the Project Mirador shows, this process of enclosure is conducted by means of various strategies of deception and violence, but not without resistance.
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- # DISPOSSESION & DISPLACEMENT
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- enclosures and forced evictions caused by project Mirador
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- content: 'In order to control the territory of the mining concession, the company Ecuacorriente used obscure procedures and intimidating tactics to divide communities and force them to leave their lands. This occurred with the connivance and direct support of the Ecuadorian State, which was instrumental to remove the population in two main ways: on the legal front, by making use of juridical mechanisms to expropriate land and persecute land and nature rights defenders; and on the territory, by deploying security forces to evict families that refused to abandon their land.'
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- Throughout the implementation of Project Mirador, the Ecuadorian government made use of a legal mechanism called _servidumbre_,  which allows land expropriation in case of projects defined as “public utility” or “national interest.” Under the _servidumbre_ mechanism, the affected party receives certain financial compensation for the expropriated property, but is obliged to leave the land.
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- Evictions were executed according to a similar pattern in that all of them were conducted by state forces and the  company's private security personnel; none of them presented judicial order; and all of them incurred in violations against the physical and psychological integrity of the community.
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- content: In addition to the expulsion of local communities and massive deforestation, mega-mining operations are also destroying hundreds of indigenous archaeological sites in the Cordillera del Cóndor region. The geographic mapping of these sites shows that they form a very large and dense archaeological complex that extends throughout valleys of the Wawayme, Tundayme and Quimi rivers. This ancient heritage is now completly gone to open land for extraction.
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- content: Most of the archaeological sites found in the area of Project Mirador are characterized by anthropogenic earth-movements known as terraces. Terraces are flat planes cut on a slope that were used as platforms for crop cultivation. There are at least 900 terraces in the region, all of which are associated with the occurrence of ceramic and lithic fragments, and often with impressive pottery works such as funeral urns and sculpted objects that may have had ritual functions. This indicates that in the past this region was inhabited by settled cultures that produced substantial transformations in the regional landscape and nurtured sophisticated arts and crafts.
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- content: Studies conducted as part of mining prospecting activities and environmental impact assessments demonstrate the existence of hundreds of archaeological sites distributed throughout the concession area. Given that scientific studies were not exhaustive neither systematic, but rather circumscribed to the context and interests of environmental impact assessments for mining operations, it is likely that this archaeological complex includes a much larger number of sites than already identified, extending over a much wider territory.
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- content: Several archaeological sites are located inside the mining concession area. The few sites that went through carbon tests show a concentration of dates between 800 and 1300 AD. According to one archaeological study, this allows to infer “a period of greater occupation” in this interval, just prior to the invasion of European colonizers. The communities that lived in this region were therefore the near ancestors of the Jivaroan peoples.
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- content: Documentation of excavation of a terrace structure st an archaeological site located where the village of San Marcos was. (site Z6DIII-04T).
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- content: Documentation of the petroglyph found in archaeological site Z6DIII-020 before its destruction. An investigation commissioned by Ecuacorriente in 2006 identified a large petroglyph in this area. This study concludes by recommending a modification in the original project of the mine to “avoid the destruction” of the petroglyph and its adjacent archaeological structures, which included more than 30 terraced structures. These recommendations were ignored. In a field inspection conducted by the Ecuadorian National Institute of Cultural Heritage (INPC) in 2017, researchers found that the petroglyph had been “partially destroyed.”
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- content: At the time of this writing, probably all archaeological sites in the Mirador have been completely destroyed. The studies and reports we analyzed also show that some sites have gone through “archaeological rescuing,” and that all material collected remain in possession of Ecuacorriente or the Ecuadorian State. According to the INPC report mentioned above, these archaeological materials are stored in precarious conditions, “without technical standards,” in a deposit at the Socialization and Training Room of the Mirador project. Therefore they are under risk of being irreparably damaged and lost. Further, indigenous communities that inhabit the area, the original owners of these cultural heritage, have not been consulted regarding these archaeological sites nor do they have information about the destination of the rescued objects.
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- The implementation of the mega-mining Project Mirador in the Ecuadorian Amazon has been marked by systematic land and human rights violations of indigenous and peasant communities. Since early stages, project Mirador was conducted without prior, free and informed consultation of local communities, violating basic right principles and international protocols of which Ecuador is signatory. As local people organized and refused to leave their lands, the Ecuadorian state and the mining company Ecuacorriente joined forces to forcibly evict the population to open the area for the mega-mine.
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-  The implementation of Project Mirador was based on the removal of the entire community that lived in the valleys of the Wawayme, Quimi and Tundayme rivers. This investigation shows the spatial logics of a coordinated strategy of “land clearing” executed by state and private security forces aimed at depopulating the region. Evictions were conducted through destruction of houses, gardens and communal buildings. As such they consist in grave human rights violations and not isolated cases, revealing a pattern of violence directed against the entire community.
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- Project Mirador also causes massive environmental destruction. Satellite images show that mining operations accelerated exponentially after the evictions of 2014-2017. Without the presence (and resistance) of the local community, deforestation spread throughout the region. Further, earth movements, erosions and the use of chemicals led to severe contamination of water streams.
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- Numerous indigenous archaeological sites were destroyed by Project Mirador. Ignoring protocols of consultancy, archaeological rescue operations have been carried out without informing indigenous communities and official indigenous agencies in Ecuador, configuring a continuous act of cultural dispossession.
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-  Observed in relation to each other, the processes of expulsion and expropriation narrated here constitute multiple forms of displacement – of land, resources and culture. As such they should be repaired and remedied in multiple dimensions: social-economic, environmental and cultural.
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- # DOWNLOAD REPORT
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- ###### [Expulsions Report in PDF](https://www.dropbox.com/s/t603x347361vs9n/20200302_Expulsion_Report_ENG.pdf?dl=0)
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- This report was produced under commission of INREDH (Fundación Regional de Asesoría en Derechos Humanos) and CASCOMI – (Comunidad Amazónica de Acción Social Cordillera del Cóndor Mirador), within the framework of a protection action filed against the Ecuadorian State (Ministry of Mining, Ministry of the Interior, Ministry of the Environment, ARCOM - Agencia de Regulación y Control Minero) and the company Ecuacorriente for the violation of collective rights of the communities of the Cordillera del Cóndor. Our research counted on the invaluable collaboration of [Geografia Critica Ecuador](https://geografiacriticaecuador.org/) and [Acción Ecológica.](http://www.accionecologica.org/)
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- **Realized by autonoma, MediaLab-UFRJ and Forensic Architecture**
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- **Coordinator**: Paulo Tavares
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- **Research and Mapping:** Adriano Belisário and Ana Altberg
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- **Web Design:** Marlus Araújo
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- **Video:** Camara Shuar
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- **RESEARCH SOURCES**
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- Ecuador: La herida abierta del Cóndor Vulneración de derechos, Quito: El Chasqui Ediciones, 2017.
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- CEDHU (Comisión Ecuménica de Derechos Humanos) and FIDH (Federación Internacional de Derechos Humanos). Intervención Minera a Gran Escala en Ecuador y Vulneración de Derechos Humanos. Quito: 2010.
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- William Sacher and Michelle Báez, ENTRETELONES DE LA MEGAMINERÍA EN EL ECUADOR. Quito: Acción Ecológica, 2015.
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- Gloria Chicaiza,El Enclave Minero de la Cordillera del Cóndor. Quito: Acción Ecológica, 2010.
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