Indigenous defenders opposing the Marlin mine were criminalised by a corporation and its state allies Nina Lakhani writes in The Guardian about the community struggle against the Canadian gold-mining firm Goldcorp’s Marlin mine in San Miguel Ixtahuacán, in the west… Read More ›
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Canada’s Diplomatic Support to Mining Under Scrutiny
In a series of tweets, Jackie McVicar has outlined the background to an important court case taking place in Canada regarding Canadian Government pressure on the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights regarding the Marlin Mine in Western Guatemala. Guate’s constitutional… Read More ›
On the front lines of mining protests with the Maya
Sr. Dani Brought accompanies resisters outside the gold mine at La Puya. Armed police are a constant, intimidating presence. (Mary Jo McConahay) Mary Jo McConahy has written this piece for the Global Sisters Report website. It is reproduced here. To… Read More ›
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