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The Peaceful Resistance of La Puya fights for the right to water

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Brent Patterson - RABBLE Residents from the communities of San José del Golfo and San Pedro Ayampuc -- an area known as La Puya -- have been fighting against the Progreso VII Derivada-El Tambor gold mine located just north of Guatemala City since March 2010. The Peaceful Resistan...

Criminalization of the Aymara People - Supreme Court Will Decide on Aduviri Case on October 5th.

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Press Release Criminalization of the Aymara People - Supreme Court Will Decide on Aduviri Case on October 5th. 20th September 2018  Cochabamba, Ottawa, Puno, Washington. On Monday September 17th at 0900, a hearing took place at the Supreme Court in Lima, Peru to analyze the case ...

More than one hundred organizations reject the unjust payment of USD $31 million to Canadian mining company Bear Creek

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Groups call for the annulment of sentence against Aymara spokesperson in the Peruvian Supreme Court Puno, Cochabamba, Washington, Ottawa, September 13th, 2018 PRESS RELEASE More than one hundred organizations call for the annulment of sentence against Aymara spokesperson in the Peruvian Suprem...

Guatemalan court upholds Tahoe mine suspension

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By Sandra Cuffe: CIM Magazine Tahoe Resources’ fiercely contested Escobal silver mine in Guatemala will remain idled for the time being. Members of the regional mining resistance movement inspect a truck at a roadside action in Casillas to make sure it does not carry material or supp...

Criminalisation brought to new extremes in case of Aymara indigenous communities in Peru

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Thomas McDonagh and Aldo Orellana Lopez  : OPEN DEMOCRACY  In the coming weeks, the Supreme Court in Peru will decide the fate of Walter Aduviri, an indigenous spokesperson and aspiring politician for the local elections, convicted for his role in the 2011 Puno protests.  ...

Rural Communities’ Struggle Against US-Owned Mine Continues in Guatemalan Supreme Court

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Jeff Abbott : UPSIDEDOWN WORLD The long-running struggle of rural communities in Guatemala against the United States-based mining firm Kappes, Cassiday, and Associates (KCA) continues in Guatemala’s national courts. A recent investigation by the Guatemalan public ministry could come with crimina...

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