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GroundWire Dec 17 | Brazilian and Guatemalan solidarity, Closing of Advocate for Children and Youth

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No More Goldcorp, No More Murders

Sakura Saunders — Sun, 03 May 2015 17:02:28 +0000

a memorial and march to confront Goldcorp’s AGM

All photos by Allan Lissner.

Martial Law, Repression, and Remilitarization in Guatemala

Megan Kinch — Fri, 18 Feb 2011 00:08:20 +0000

On February 8, Felix Cuc Xo, a community activist from the settlement of Xya’al K’obe’ in northern Alta Verapaz, Guatemala, was beaten in front of his family and taken away by soldiers and police. He was detained in a private residence that was surrounded by police, and did not resurface.

Goldcorp AGM Protest

allan lissner — Fri, 21 May 2010 18:05:37 +0000

About fifty people gathered to protest outside the Annual General Meeting of Goldcorp Inc., the world's second largest gold mining corporation, in Toronto on Wednesday May 19, 2010.

A Toronto-Based Mining Company and the Death of a Mayan Teacher

SandraCuffe — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 15:32:54 +0000

Was Adolfo Ich targeted for his anti-mining activism against HudBay Minerals?

RIGHTS ACTION Report
October 18, 2009

MINING & THE DEATH OF A MAYAN TEACHER

HUDBAY MINERALS/ CGN SECURITY FORCES KILL ADOLFO ICH, A MAYAN TEACHER, APPARENTLY TARGETED FOR HIS DEFENSE OF INDIGENOUS AND HUMAN RIGHTS

This report is based on eye witness testimony and reports from human rights organizations gathered between September 29 and October 10, 2009.

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VIOLENT IMPOSITION OF THE FENIX NICKEL MINING PROJECT

Toronto-based HudBay Minerals, through its subsidiary the Compania Guatemalteca de Niquel, CGN, is developing the Fenix Project, expected to be one of the world’s largest nickel mines, in a Maya Qeqchi region of Guatemala in which organized crime has come to virtually control the State, particularly the justice system.

HudBay/CGN has fomented paramilitary organizations that commit acts of violence and human rights violations of Maya Qeqchi communities, in direct collaboration with the HudBay/CGN private security force and with the National Civil Police and Army.

On Sunday, September 27, Mynor Padilla, head of security for HudBay/CGN’s Fenix project, killed a teacher (Adolfo Ich) as Adolfo attempted to protect children from the security force’s indiscriminant shooting which left another community member paraplegic and at least four more wounded.

BUILD UP TO ANOTHER KILLING