Location
Community & Indigenous Resistance To Harmful Gold Mining In Guatemala & Honduras
FEATURING SPEAKERS:
Javier de Leon, from Guatemala;
Carlos Amador, from Honduras;
Karen Spring, Canadian with Rights Action in Guatemala-Honduras.
*JAVIER de LEON*: Javier is a Mayan Mam community leader from the village
of Maquivil, municipality of San Miguel Ixtahuacan, department of San
Marcos. From his small home, he looks across at Goldcorp's ever expanding
open-pit, cyanide-leaching gold mine - the "Marlin" mine. Since 2004,
Javier has been educating and organizing Mayan Mam communities and working
to resist and demand justice for the health and environmental harms and
human rights violations caused by Goldcorp's mine.
*CARLOS AMADOR*: Carlos is a teacher and community leader in El Porvenir,
15 kilometers from Goldcorp's open-pit, cyanide-leaching gold mine - the
"San Martin" mine. Since 2000, Carlos has been educating and organizing
local communities in the Siria Valley, and working to resist and demand
justice for the health and environmental harms and human rights violations
caused by Goldcorp's mine.
*KAREN SPRING*: Karen is from Ontario, Canada. With Rights Action since
early 2009, she lives and works in Honduras and Guatemala.
*RESISTANCE TO HARMFUL MINING*
Since 2000, Rights Action has been supporting and involved with struggles
related to Goldcorp Inc's open-pit, cyanide-bonding mines in Honduras and
Guatemala, and related to HudBay Mineral's nickel mine (formerly owned by
INCO and then Skye Resources) in Guatemala. (At www.rightsaction.org, there
is extensive information about health and environmental harms and human
rights violations linked to these mines and companies.)
