~Please distribute widely. Many of you know Angelica and she and others need your support now! Individual and organizational sign-ons needed! Angelica Choc has denounced the murder of her husband, Maya Q'eqchi' activist and leader Adolfo Ich, in Europe and Canada. Dear friends, We’re looking for individual and [...]
Breaking the Silence has been accompanying both the victims of the attack by Mynor Padilla, including the family of Adolfo Ich Chaman who was murdered in the attack, and German Chub Cub who was injured. For the last year, BTS has also accompanied parts of the trial in Puerto Barrios, [...]
Victims and family members of the September 2009 attack continue to demand justice despite legal obstacles. Court's ruling re disclosure of Hudbay's documents Press Advisory Ontario court orders Hudbay Minerals to disclose internal corporate documentation in Guatemalan human rights lawsuit June 30, 2015 TORONTO - In a [...]
Originally posted in the NB Media Coop. BTS Fredericton member Tracy Glynn gave this speech at the "Women on the Move Until We are All Free" rally in Fredericton on April 24, 2015. I’m a member of Breaking the Silence – a network of people in the Maritimes who began [...]
Ex-Jefe De Seguridad De Hudbay Minerals/CGN Busca Obstruir El Debido Proceso Penal 25 de julio de 2014 Mynor Ronaldo Padilla Gonzales, ex-jefe de seguridad de Hudbay Minerals/ CGN (Compañía Guatemalteca de Níquel) busca obstruir el debido proceso penal para fugarse de la justicia. El día 22 de julio de 2014, [...]
Denouncing harrassment and threats against Qeqchi plaintiffs in Guatemala related to lawsuits in Canada against Hudbay Minerals and CGN (Guatemalan Niquel Company) Letter to:SEPREM (Secretaria Presidencial de la Mujer), Guatemala, from:Klippensteins Barristers and Solicitors, Canada ******* March 28, 2014 Licenciada Elizabeth Quiroa Cuellar SEPREM (secretaria presidencial de la mujer) Attention: [...]
Were They Murdered? By Magali Rey Rosa, Prensa Libre newspaper, March 14, 2014 http://www.prensalibre.com.gt/opinion/asesinados_0_1101489859.html#.UyNBRP4Bnjs.facebook March 31 will mark the second anniversary of the tragedy in which Nahomy, Ángel and Juan Carlos, Biology students from the Universidad del Valle de Guatemala (UVG), died within the facilities of the nickel mine in [...]
Mynor Ronaldo Padilla Gonzales, ex jefe de Seguridad de la Compañía Guatemalteca de Níquel –CGN-/ Hudbay Minerals será Juzgado por delitos cometidos contra el Pueblo Q´eqchi, en Debate Oral y Público el 4 de abril 2014. La Compañía Guatemalteca de Níquel –CGN-, antes subsidiaria de la compañía canadiense Hudbay Minerals [...]
Republished from Embassy Magazine. November 13, 2013 GDressed proudly in their traditional colourful clothing, Angelica Choc and Maudilia Lopez Cardona travelled from their Guatemalan villages to Parliament Hill to draw attention to what they say is an inexcusable price paid by their communities to Canadian mining companies. For Sister Lopez, [...]
Originally posted on the NB Media Coop Website. Written by Tracy Glynn on November 5, 2013 in Canada, Canada, Environment, Indigenous, New Brunswick - No comments Angelica Choc addresses law and sociology students at the University of New Brunswick law school on Nov. 1st, 2013. Photo by Tracy Glynn. [...]
