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Costa Rican presidential candidate blasts ecologists, says he would bring mining back

Valentina Ruiz Leotaud | January 17, 2018 | 8:00 am Precious Metals Latin America Gold 

Presidential candidate for the conservative National Integration Party (PIN in Spanish), Diego Castro, caused controversy in Costa Rica after he called environmentalist groups "eco-terrorists." Castro, who has been compared by local media to Donald Trump and Rodrigo Duterte, as well...

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