| LC control no. | no2021010621 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Acuña, Máxima, 1970- |
| Variant(s) | Acuña Atalaya, Máxima, 1970- Atalaya, Máxima Acuña, 1970- Acuña de Chaupe, Máxima, 1970- De Chaupe, Máxima Acuña, 1970- Chaupe, Máxima Acuña de, 1970- |
| Located | Tragadero Grande (Peru) |
| Address | info@goldmanprize.org publicaciones@edicionesachawata.com |
| Birth date | 1970-05-29 |
| Place of birth | Amarcucho (Peru) |
| Field of activity | Conga mining project |
| Affiliation | Asociación de Mujeres en Defensa de la Vida Red ULAM |
| Profession or occupation | Subsistence farmer Environmentalist |
| Found in | Máxima (Motion picture), 2020: credits (Máxima Acuña) Máxima Acuña, 2021: title page (Máxima Acuña) title page verso (published by Ediciones Achawata; publicaciones@edicionesachawata.com) page 45, etc. (Máxima Acuña Atalaya; born May 29, 1970 in Amarcucho, Cajamarca, Peru; farmer whose parents were also farmers; environmentalist who opposed the Conga mining project of Minera Yanacocha S.A. and began a legal dispute with them beginning in 2011; won the Goldman Environmental Prize in 2016) Goldman Environmental Prize website, August 17, 2022: (Máxima Acuña; subsistence farmer in Peru's northern highlands who stood up for her right to peacefully live off her own property, a plot of land sought by Newmont and Buenaventura Mining to develop the Conga gold and copper mine; 2016 prize winner; info@goldmanprize.org) <https://www.goldmanprize.org/recipient/maxima-acuna/#recipient-bio> <https://www.goldmanprize.org/contact-us/> Front Line Defenders website, August 17, 2022: (Máxima Acuña de Chaupe; member of the Asociación de Mujeres en Defensa de la Vida (Association of Women in Defence of Livelihood) and of the Unión Latinoamericana de Mujeres ULAM (Latin American Women's Union); she has lived on her land in Tragadero Grande, Sorochuco, Cajamarca for 24 years; the Supreme Court of Peru acquitted her of illegally occupying land on May 3, 2017) <https://www.frontlinedefenders.org/en/case/case-history-maxima-acuna-de-chaupe> |
| Associated language | spa |
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