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...struggle against the mine, he contends, is a struggle to correct the sins of the past. By opposing the mine, he says he wants to "give a salute to [Hugo] Chávez," Venezuela's radical socialist President. Says Bert Supit, founder of Manado-based NGO Majelis Adat Minahasa and one of the gold mine's chief opponents: "We want to remain Indonesian, but we don't want to be dictated to by the élites in Jakarta. We need to find a system that allows the local people to have a voice in their affairs...
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