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Local April 9, 2013 | 12:30 pm

Agro leaders to protest Barrick Gold contract on Friday

Santo Domingo.- The country’s agro producers grouped in CONFENAGRO on Tuesday called for a series of protests on Friday April 12, in rebuke of Barrick Gold’s contract, which calls for only 3% of the profits from the gold mined at Cotuí, in Dominican Republic’s northeast.

Organization president Erick Rivero said the associations 3,000 members will march on horses, tractors, mot... Read more