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Nicaraguan miners clash with authorities over Canadian concession
Nicaraguan miners clash with authorities over Canadian concession
By The Associated Press
February 13, 2013
MANAGUA, Nicaragua - The president of Nicaragua's Council of Bishops is backing independent, small-scale miners whose protest against the concession given to a Canadian mining company was broken up by police.
Msgr. Socrates Rene Sandigo says the miners and "are only asking they be paid what is due them."
The Nicaragua government recently gave Canada's B2Gold company the rights to gold fields the miners had long worked.
The miners blocked a highway over the weekend to protest and demand $38 million in compensation.
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http://www.canada.com/news/Nicaraguan+miners+clash+with+authorities+over+Canadian+concession/7955949/story.html
