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On December 2, 2002, MIT student Jesse Barnes reported on work he did in Honduras helping villagers monitor water quality in the vicinity of a US-owned cyanide-leach gold mine.

On November 6, 2003, activist Bertha Caceres, co-founder of the Council of Popular and Indigenous Organizations, spoke about the effects of the "free trade" development model on indigenous rights and the environment.