... The Guatemalan constitutional court also found that the mining company failed to obtain a municipal construction license for the project.
But La Puya’s fight is not over.
While lacking any social or ...
... a truck at a roadside action in Casillas to make sure it does not carry material or supplies destined for the Escobal mine. Sandra CuffeOn Monday, the Guatemalan Constitutional Court upheld the suspension ...
... national courts. A recent investigation by the Guatemalan public ministry could come with criminal charges for executives of the controversial gold mine.
On May 27, the Guatemalan Public Ministry opened ...
Guatemalan Mine Threatens the Lempa River
The Lempa River is the main source of surface water in El Salvador and provides drinking water for over 60% of the entire population, including the city of San ...
... concerns, but the Guatemalan state and Bluestone rejected their views and pushed for an injunction to annul the results. Events like these show the historic importance of the Salvadoran mining ban as well ...
... carried out under article 64 of the Guatemalan Municipal Code.
We express:
That today, September 21, 2022, at 3:45 pm, we were notified about an injunction against the Commission specifically ...
... process. Julio González, from the Guatemalan MadreSelva environmental collective, explained that “instead of an update, a process to present the EIA for the new, different project should have been open." ...
... mining project that poses environmentmental threats for both Guatemalan and Salvadoran communities.
The International Observation Mission was made up of the National Roundtable Against Metal Mining ...
... place in Guatemala, and in particular in the Cerro Blanco mine, located in the (Guatemalan) municipality of Asunción Mita," the mayors expressed in a statement.
Grouped in the Río Lempa Trinational Association, ...
... place in Guatemala, and in particular in the Cerro Blanco mine, located in the (Guatemalan) municipality of Asunción Mita," the mayors expressed in a statement.
Grouped in the Río Lempa Trinational Association, ...
Inequality
Jen Moore and Ellen Moore
Vice President Kamala Harris in a virtual bilateral meeting with Guatemalan President Alejandro Giammattei on April 26, 2021. As the Vice President seeks to remedy ...
... struggle, the communities in resistance to the mine were violently evicted by the police.
By February 2016, the Peaceful Resistance of La Puya won a Guatemalan Supreme Court ruling that provisionally ...
... to Guatemalan authorities and signed by nearly 200 organizations concerned over the recent attacks and threats against defenders, Pan American Silver wrote that it continues “community relations activities ...
... of American States’ human rights commission called for a suspension of operations at the company’s Marlin mine in 2010. The Guatemalan government ultimately denied the commission’s request, which was meant ...
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The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights has called for the closure of Goldcorp’s Guatemalan Marlin Mine due to the company’s failure to consult with indigenous communities. The Canadian government ...
... request.
Hidden in those documents are details about Canadian officials’ communications with Goldcorp, the Guatemalan government and the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) after the commission ...
... court by Guatemalan plaintiffs who alleged the company’s private security were guilty of negligence and battery when they attacked and injured peaceful protesters at a mine operated by a subsidiary of ...
... to the El Tambor gold mine. When unwavering community resistance again forced a halt in operations, the company filed a claim in Guatemalan courts complaining the government had failed to protect its investments. ...
Institute for Policy Studies
EarthWorks
400 million suit against the Guatemalan government. Released today, Mining Injustice Through International Arbitration: Countering Kappes, Cassiday & Associates’ ...
... a mining license for Escobal.
July 24: Guatemalan NGO CALAS says Escobal’s mining license has been suspended as a result of a court ruling. Tahoe Resources says the permit remains fully effective.
2014 ...