Over sixty international organizations wrote the Guatemalan Attorney General this week expressing deep sadness and concern following the brutal murder of Ángel Estuardo Quevedo on July 12, 2018, an active a member of the Peaceful Resistance movement of Santa Rosa, Jalapa and Jutiapa against Tahoe Resources' Escobal project in southeastern Guatemala. 

August 1, 2018

Dear Attorney General María Consuelo Porras Argueta:

For mining, oil, gas, forestry, fishing, and any other industrial projects.

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Important coverage of this problem published by The Narwhal on July 16, 2018, quoting Ugo Lapointe. Read the whole article here.

An excerpt:

Companies pay Canada a tiny fraction of what they pay other countries to extract gold

James Wilt 

Here's a small selection of highlights from the past few months!

MiningWatch Releases Video and Critique of the Mine’s Grievance Mechanism

Early last week, over thirty organizations and 160 individuals sent a letter to Mexican authorities, the Canadian Embassy in Mexico and the President of Canadian mining company Almaden Minerals expressing concern about the murder of Manuel Gaspar Rodríguez and threats of criminalization and violence against Indigenous communities in the Sierra Norte de Puebla who are fighting mining and hydroelectric projects.

It was sheer coincidence, but more than a tinge of irony coloured yesterday's news that the Supreme Court of Canada will hear Nevsun Resources' appeal of a court ruling that accusations against it regarding the use of forced labour at its Bisha mine in Eritrea should be heard in British Columbia, not Eritrea, just as a new report revealed evidence of the

On June 11, over fifty Guatemalan and international organizations sent a letter to the U.S. Embassy in Guatemala raising deep concern about Embassy interference and threats of international lawsuits that they believe are putting undue pressure on the country’s Constitutional Court and pose further risk to residents demonstrating against the project.

(Williams Lake) Local, provincial, and national groups join tonight in Williams Lake for the launch of ‘Stand for Water’ tour spearheaded by First Nations Women Advocating Responsible Mining (FNWARM) in British Columbia.