... Honduran businessman Lenir Pérez and his wife Ana Isabel Facussé, owners of Inversiones Los Pinares -- a company that is waging battle against the residents of a town called Guapinol, who oppose the company' ...
... opening an alternate road in Kasibu town, after the main road was made impassable, because of the overflow of the mine tailings pond. We demand that DILG Sec. Ano immediately revoke any order to the ...
... about 15 kilometers from downtown San Salvador, has not had any running water in her house since the pandemic started back in March 2020. In fact, she hasn't had any tap water consistently in her home for ...
... the safe return of five Garífuna land defenders who were kidnapped last month in the Caribbean coastal town of Triunfo de la Cruz. Witnesses say the abductors wore police uniforms and forced them into ...
... of cases of Covid-19 has increased. "Among the unionized workers and those of the subcontractors in less than 15 days, there are 150 positive for Covid-19. In these small towns, some of these workers live ...
... consulted in the granting of its mining license.
June 19: Protesters in the town of Casillas block the main road linking Guatemala City to the Escobal mine.
July 5: The supreme court issues a provisional ...
... from the small town of San Isidro, Cabañas, who died due to his relentless opposition to the El Dorado mining project, owned by Canadian Pacific Rim/Oceana Gold mining company.
The death of Marcelo, ...
... NAFTA over an environmental dispute concerning limestone quarrying in the state of Quintana Roo. The company is in conflict with the municipality of Solidaridad (where the resort town Playa del Carmen ...
... a threat for El Salvador as several border towns may be impacted by the contamination released due to their location at just at 6 kilometers away.
The Ostúa River starts in Asunción Mita, and carries ...
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Tegucigalpa - The town hall through which the municipal corporation of Tocoa declared its territory, located in the department of Colon, free of mining activity, caused the residents' frustration ...
... and Dora Sorto, who were criminalized and killed for opposing mining projects in this area.
On this occasion, the commemoration was held in the town of Maraña, home to some of the victims of the repression ...
... a requirement to hold town hall meetings (Cabildo Abierto) on matters that affect the lives of local communities. As a result, local organizations organized under the Committee have launched a campaign ...
... in the chest. A bullet grazed their daughter’s head The ambush was supposed to kill him, but it took his wife’s life instead.
Claver, an Indigenous Igorot man from the tribal town of Bontoc in the ...
... because of fears that they are contaminated with heavy metals used in the extraction process.
“The country’s most important markets flat-out avoid buying our products,” he told IPS from his hometown. ...
... in the area, in 2005, due to the possible negative impacts that would occur not only in Guatemalan towns, but also in El Salvador, as contamination reaches the Guija lake, in the department of Metapan, ...
... from Casillas, a town a few kilometres southwest of the mine, told CIM Magazine after the ruling. Abrego was one of the people from the regional resistance movement who have been camped out near the court ...
... initially by Canadian mining firm, Radius Gold, which eventually sold to US mining firm KCA, seeking to exploit gold and silver reserves in the hills just outside of town. Fearful over the impacts on the ...
... originate in their struggle to repopulate the town of Santa Marta, Cabañas, at the height of the bloody civil war. Founded by community members on their return from Honduran refugee camps, ADES and Radio ...
... operates in the area.
The San Rafael mining company, a subsidiary of the Canadian company Tahoe Resources, is located on the outskirts of San Rafael Las Flores, a town 96 km southeast of Guatemala City, ...
... water, despite being charged for municipal water.
He recalls his rural hometown, where water flowed from nearby springs and was regulated by community boards. “Where my parents live, the village still ...