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NAMBIJA, ECUADOR - MARCH 23: Ecuador has extracted to date a total of 145 tons of gold, according to official data from the Central Bank. A high percentage of that gold is from Nambija mines in the province of Zamora Chinchipe, south of Ecuador, which in the decade of 80s reached to give work to 20 thousand people from all sectors of Ecuador. These people, with his new office, began building a village. They learned, along the way, how to be miner, in a tangled maze of tunnels that are between 200 and 500 meters deep and gutters where water runs washing the material from which is extracted the gold. This is the history which miners would like to talk with any president of Ecuador. But presidents don't arrive, and they think, as Angel Maya says, that will be the police and military that will arrive instead to dislodge them as it has already occurred at Conguime or Esmeraldas, and they'll remove what is rightfully theirs, because they have worked for 30 years.

We are not criminals, we are proud to be miners and we are proud to have provided to the Ecuadorian state, with work, with death and with gold ..... and as we see their way of life, that has not changed, we see that the successive governments have forgotten them. The Nambija you can met at 90s remains the same, with good people, with young people who come full of hope to find a solution to their unemployment and with older who claim we don't criminalize them and that hope we come back with their photos, with the history they have told to me, not with mine.

They don't understand of citizen revolutions, they only live. There, in Nambija, are built townspeople stories, many different of those of bureaucrats who see figures behind a desk and who never will walk through this labyrinth that reminds the Kingdom of Mordor, or those town described by Tolkien where the ring was looked for. But here, in Nambija, what you are looking for is the gold nugget, of that gold who fits the rings and jewellery sold at stores in Ne