Indigenous leader says activist killed in Ecuador
An Ecuadorean indigenous leader was slain just days before he planned to travel to U.N. climate talks in Peru to protest a Chinese-owned open-pit copper mine being developed on his community's ancestral lands, a tribal head said Monday.
Shuar Federation president Jose Chumapi told The Associated Press that Jose Tendetza's decomposed body was found in a river last week, a rope tied around the waist.
He said the cause of death was difficult to determine and Tendetza's body was buried after the Dec. 2 discovery. The death didn't come to light until now because the southern region bordering Peru where the death occurred is so remote.
Chumapi said Tendetza stridently opposed the Condor Mirador mine planned for property controlled by the company Ecuacorriente. The project has not yet been developed.
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