Stories from the New Silk Road: Ecuador

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Nov 2, 202227:19News & Politics

The Cordillera del Condor mountain range in the east of Ecuador is where the mountains meets the jungles and the Andes meets the Amazon. In this region a Chinese run copper mine, Mirador, has grabbed the headlines over r...

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