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Choropampa, The Price of Gold [Perú]
[Click on "Synopsis"] [Gurango present this award winning film which details] [a] devastating mercury spill by the world’s richest gold mining corporation [Yanacocha, part of Newmont and Compañía de Minas Buenaventura] [which] transforms a quiet peasant village in Peru’s Andean mountains into a hotbed of civil resistance. A courageous young mayor emerges to lead his people on a quest for health care and justice. But powerful interests conspire to thwart the villagers at every turn in this 2-year epic chronicle of the real price of gold.