“The mountain, just as it is destroyed, also has a memory to return”: Naomi Cruz

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“The mountain, just as it is destroyed, also has a memory to return”: Naomi Cruz

To reach the communities of northern Salta, in Argentina, there was only one dirt road that crossed the mountain. Naomi Cruz, used to travel it as a girl. Replete in nature, the activist says, had to walk as one could to reach those places. That scenario, as she knew it three decades ago, is in extinction. The first paved route gave way to the deforestation that is now ending the mountain, now composed of huge soy plantations that trace a geomet…