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Dr. Jeffrey Webber, Senior Lecturer
School of Politics and International Relations
Queen Mary University of London

ABSTRACT: Rooted in thousands of pages of Access to Information documents and dozens of interviews carried out throughout Latin America, Blood of Extraction examines the increasing presence of Canadian mining companies in Latin America and the environmental and human rights abuses that have occurred as a result. By following the money, Gordon and Webber illustrate the myriad ways Canadian based multinational corporations, backed by the Canadian state, have developed extensive economic interests in Latin America over the last two decades at thexpense of Latin American people and the environment. Latin American communities affected by Canadian resource extraction are now organized into hundreds of opposition movements, from Mexico to Argentina, and the authors illustrate the strategies used by the Canadian state to silence this resistance and advance corporate interests.

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