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Peruvian cardinal hails $150m lead poisoning settlement for 1,300 people as a ‘historic milestone’

Dan Collyns in Lima5 hours ago1 min readtheguardian.com
Peruvian cardinal hails $150m lead poisoning settlement for 1,300 people as a ‘historic milestone’
Cardinal Pedro Barreto received death threats and harassment during his almost 20-year campaign against a US mining company’s operations in the Andes A Peruvian cardinal who received a barrage of death threats when he challenged the firm behind a toxic smelter has called a $150m (£111m) out-of-court settlement to more than 1,000 people who were allegedly poisoned by the plant as children “a historic milestone”. Cardinal Pedro Barreto, 82, was in Rome meeting Pope Leo XIV and other cardinals in J

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