Javier con i, Íntag (2018)

Overview : On April 10, 2014, the environmental activist and president of the Junín community, Javier Ramírez, was arrested and sentenced to ten months in prison for the crimes of “rebellion, sabotage and terrorism”. A few days later, the National Mining Company entered the area accompanied by a squad of at least 200 policemen to carry out studies related to the Llurimagua mining project, in the Íntag cloud forest. Javier with I, Íntag collects Javier Ramírez's reflections after his release, his feeling of condemned innocence, the pain of living in a divided, busy and frightened community, with its social fabric destroyed.

Release Date : May 7, 2018

Runtime : 52m

Genre : Documentary  

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Countries : Ecuador

Keywords : mining, environmental destruction, enviromentalist, political prisoner, environmental activist, extractivism