[Analemma_]

Indigenous people have pretty shitty representation in government, and this applies pretty much wherever you go. It's completely possible for them to get screwed even if the government were totally happy with the mining contracts... actually, I'd be astonished if that weren't the case.

[dismantlethesun]

Governments often coordinate the share of natural resources between members of the same nation, and anytime the share isn't 100% going to the people that coincidentally happened to live upon a oil deposit or lithium deposit, then they'll complain that they are being shorted on the deal.

Yet most people question why a natural resource extraction should result in a windfall for 300-1000 people at most, and leave the rest of the nation without any immediate benefit.

We can question why X people get more and Y people get less, but that's really getting into the scope of the politics of a foreign nation which I bet none of us are really capable of discussing.

[neves]

The most common output in Latin America is to benefit a foreign company and a bunch of bribed politicians.