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Choropampa the price of gold = el precio del oro
Title
Choropampa [videorecording] : the price of gold = el precio del oro / [presented by] Guarango Film and Video ; produced and directed by Ernesto Cabellos, Stephanie Boyd.
Published
Brooklyn, NY : First Run/Icarus Films [distributor], c2002.
Physical Description
1 videodisc (74 min., 48 sec.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Notes
Camera, Ernesto Cabellos ; still photo, Malú Cabellos ; edited by Ernesto Cabellos, Stephanie Boyd.
Alternating Spanish language with English subtitles and English language with Spanish subtitles.
Summary
On June 2, 2000, 151 kilograms of liquid mercury spilled from a truck hauling the mercury away from the Yanacocha goldmine in the Peruvian Andes. The spill covered a 25-mile long area, contaminating the small mountain villages Choropampa, San Juan, and Magdalena. Peru's World Bank and the Newmont Mining Corp. of Colorado, the owners of the mine, claim that the problem was quickly resolved, but hundreds of people still suffer the ill effects. This video details the legal battles of the people of Choropampa to get proper medical care and compensation for the damage done to the town and its economy and "exposes the global gold trade's nasty underbelly."
Variant and related titles
Price of gold
Precio del oro
Format
Images / Video & Film
Language
English; Spanish
Added to Catalog
February 21, 2006
Credits
Camera, Ernesto Cabellos ; still photo, Malú Cabellos ; edited by Ernesto Cabellos, Stephanie Boyd.
System details note
DVD.
Subjects
Subjects (Medical)
Mercury Poisoning - epidemiology - Peru.
Environmental Exposure - adverse effects - Peru.
Gold - Peru.
Mercury - toxicity - Peru.
Mining - Peru.
Also listed under
Guarango Cine y Video.
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