Yesterday, March 2, 2016,the Comunidad en Resistencia at La Puya celebrated their fourth year of peaceful resistance against the El Tambor gold mine. This anniversary was especially momentous, coming just after the Guatemalan Supreme Court’s February 22 ruling to suspend… Read More ›
Resource Extraction
No one is controlling Perenco…..
Sebastián Escalón writes, in PlazaPublica, that the oil company is operating since 2010 without having an approved Environmental Impact Study….. No one is controlling Perenco and the Office of the Counsel-General is requesting it to stop The environmental impact study… Read More ›
Guatemalan Court Upholds Ruling on Ecocide
Polly Higgins writes in the blog, ‘Eradicating Ecocide‘, about the recent court case in Guatemala where the African palm oil corporation, Empresa Reforestadora de Palma de Petén SA (REPSA), lost their appeal against the first ruling of its kind. The… Read More ›
Payada pa’ Satán – short film
Did you know that to produce a single gold ring generates 18 tons of toxic waste? Mega-mining is an chemical extractive industry which impacts all the world’s ecosystems, contaminating the reserves of freshwater, affecting the health of millions of people,… Read More ›
Lessons in Resistance From La Puya, Guatemala
Richard Ring wrote in Counterpunch about his visit to La Puya in 2014 and looked for lessons that he could take home from the Comunidad en Resistencia. – No religious or political distinctions. Everybody drinks water. – Women in front,… Read More ›
Resource Extraction Destroys Guatemala Social Fabric
Sandra Moran marches alongside other activists to demand respect for women’s rights and end to violence against women. | Photo: Facebook / Sandra Moran Resource extraction projects destroy the land and social fabric, and both are fundamental for the lives… Read More ›
NGOs condemn Canadian ruling that mining case be heard in Guatemala
Canadian and U.S. organisations condemn judge’s ruling that a lawsuit against Vancouver-based mining company Tahoe Resources must be heard in Guatemala, not Canada. Six plaintiffs allege that security personnel attacked protesters in 2013 with rubber bullets at the Tahoe Resources-owned… Read More ›
New report on the right to food and human rights defenders in Guatemala
A coalition six of international organisations have published a new report on the Right to Adequate Food (RtAR) and the situation of human rights defenders in Guatemala. The report, published in October, followed a third international mission to Guatemala, carried… Read More ›
Indigenous peoples’ rights and hydro-electric projects in Guatemala: The case of the Ch’orti’ in Chiquimula
We were born here, We did not come here Aquí hemos nacido, no hemos venido Machiwar kayopá temeyum Iranon kuxpon tará The indigenous Maya Ch’orti’ community in Chiquimula, Guatemala, is in conflict with the companies Las TresNiñas and Jonbo which… Read More ›
How a quasi-military project was created to protect the Escobal mine
“An affidavit given on November 24, 2014 by Donald Paul Gray, vice president of the Canadian mining company Tahoe Resources Inc., has shed light on the strong interests at play since 2011 in contracting private security companies for the Escobal… Read More ›
Guatemala Solidarity Network 