Sunday, 2nd March 2014, saw the Comunidad en Resistencia of ‘La Puya’ celebrate its 2nd anniversary in its struggle for land and dignity against a rapacious mining industry and the Guatemala state. Rachel Small has put together a fine series… Read More ›
La Puya
The Thorn Tree Resistance
As Emilie Teresa Smith articulates so well in Sojourners magazine, Gold and silver mines in Guatemala are wreaking havoc on local communities. But the people, using nonviolent Christian action, are fighting back. With regard to this article, she is referring… Read More ›
Two years at ‘La Puya’ protecting land and community
In February of 2012, residents of San José del Golfo and San Pedro Ayampuc (La Puya), north of Guatemala City, were struggling to obtain information about a reported mining project in their communities, which would affect hundreds of families. Months… Read More ›
La Puya – Employees of EXMINGUA-KCA plead guilty to threats against journalists
Guatemala Human Rights Commission (GHRC) reports that Juan José Reyes Carrera y retired Guatemalan Army Lt., Pablo Silas Orozco Cifuentes, were sentenced to two years in prison for “threats and coercion” against independent journalists reporting on local resistance to a… Read More ›
La Puya’s Celebration of Life, Peace, and Defense of the Earth
On the same day that Guatemalan President Otto Pérez Molina announced a two-year moratorium on mining, human rights and environmental activist Santos Fidel Ajau Suret was gunned down after leaving the peaceful community roadblock known as La Puya. He was… Read More ›
‘La Puya’: The Rhythm of Resistance
On March 3rd, this year, La Comunidad en Resistencia celebrated its first anniversary of non-violent resistance to the attempt to start mining for gold between the municipalities of San Pedro Ayampuc and San José Del Golfo, on the road between… Read More ›
Report into mine at San José del Golfo
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Guatemala: Peaceful Resistance in the Face of Violence
We have featured the struggles in the communities of San Pedro Ayampuc and San José del Golfo before <a href=http://gsntest.jocote.org/uncategorized/third-month-of-resistance-against-a-radius-gold-owned-mine-in-guatemala/"Yoli" Oquelí, here. News that the communities had been awarded the Alice Zachmann Human Rights Defender Award also reached us and… Read More ›
Alice Zachmann Human Rights Defender Award
GSN is pleased to pass on the news that the communities of San Pedro Ayampuc and San José del Golfo have been announced as the winners of the Alice Zachmann Human Rights Defender Award. The Guatemala Human Rights Commission (GHRC)… Read More ›
Third Month of Resistance Against a Radius Gold-owned Mine in Guatemala
Resistance Against EXMINGUA Gold Mine “Barely 28 kilometers northeast from Guatemala City, community members from the municipalities of San José del Golfo and San Pedro Ayampuc, also within the Department of Guatemala, have blocked the entrance to the Tambor gold… Read More ›
Guatemala Solidarity Network 