Join us to celebrate and show solidarity with over fifteen years of the Xinka People’s peaceful resistance to Pan American Silver’s Escobal mine, which they halted in mid-operation in 2017 when they set up a 24-hour, 7-day-a-week resistance camp that is still ongoing today. Their valiant efforts and organization strategies have successfully kept the Escobal Mine closed in their territories, as they exercise their right to self-determination and territorial autonomy.
This event will be an opportunity to learn more about how they have worked together despite efforts of criminalization and persecution. We will honour these nine years of their resistance encampment, and will also recall and discuss how, in May 2025, the Xinka publicly announced that they have denied consent for the mine’s reopening, exercising their self-determination as Indigenous people as part of an ongoing court-ordered consultation process.
🗓 Date: Tuesday, June 16, 2026
🕒 Time: 4pm Pacific / 5pm Guatemala / 7pm Eastern / 8pm Atlantic
📍 Format: Live webinar (virtual)
REGISTER HERE.
WHAT TO EXPECT:
- An introduction to the Xinka resistance and reflections on the 9 year celebration of the resistance encampment
- An update from Marta Muñoz and Marisol Guerra about ongoing developments since their delegation to Canada in 2025
- An art'based intervention from Colectivo Chuviricuarta
- An update on ongoing Canadian solidarity organizing in support of the Xinka people
This webinar is designed as a moment of celebration, reflection, and forward momentum — bringing together those who have been standing in solidarity with the Xinka people, and envisioning together what comes next.
PANELISTS:
Marta Muñoz is an Indigenous Xinka woman and human rights defender from the community of San Antonio Las Flores, Mataquescuintla who was named by her community to participate in the seven-year consultation process over the future of Pan American Silver’s Escobal mine.
Marisol Guerra is an Indigenous Xinka woman and human rights defender from the community of Santa Rosa de Lima. She is the President of the Xinka Women’s Commission and was named by her community to participate in the seven-year consultation process over the future of Pan American Silver’s Escobal mine.
Colectivo Chuviricuarta is a Guatemalan youth-based collective committed to political education, the promotion of art, play, and education.