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Eight Mayan Women
By: Ahni
Posted: Mar 19 09
Witnessed: 1406 veces
Regions: Guatemala
Issues: Corporations and human rights, Environment, Indigenous peoples
Tags: canada, criminalization, Guatemala, indigenous people, mining
Eight Mayan Women is a story of continued resistance to the Canadian mining company Goldcorp.
For the past three years the company has been extracting gold and silver in the municipality of San Miguel Ixtahuacan, Guatemala. The people of San Miguel have been opposed the operation, primarily out of a concern that it is destroying the environment and draining the region of its water. Many also say they were deceived and forced into selling their lands.
In 2007, the company filed a barrage of criminal charges against seven local Mayan, who came to be known as the Goldcorp 7.
That court case is long over now. But the struggle continues. Goldcorp is now once again trying to use the Guatemalan legal system to silence the people of San Miguel---filing charges against Eight Mayan Women.
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