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Tambogrande residents mobilize to defend their farming livelihood in northern Peru.
Thousands of residents of Tambogrande blocked the highway into the northern Peruvian town and marched to the regional capital, Piura, as part of a three-day stoppage to protest Vancouver-based Manhattan Mineral's plans to develop an open-pit gold-copper mine they say would destroy their farming livelihood.
The demonstrations against Manhattan in the first week of November led to the suspension of public hearings scheduled in Lima and Piura called to review Manhattan’s Environmental Impact Study (EIA).
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