Ecuador's Indigenous communities bring attention to mining woes on nature, food supply

Alexia Bădoiu

(9 Jun 2025) RESTRICTION SUMMARY: ASSOCIATED PRESS Quito, Ecuador - 9 June 2025 1. Various members of the Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities of Ecuador together with the Anti-Mining Front of Ecuador at a press conference 2. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Leonidas Iza, President of the Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities of Ecuador: "We want to say emphatically that out of the 24 provinces in Ecuador, 20 provinces have mining activities. Unfortunately, these natural resources are not going to