Crumbling Political Support for Tahoe Resources in Guatemala Article co-written by Breaking the Silence, MiningWatch Canada and the Network in Solidarity with the People of Guatemala If the militarized security strategy that Tahoe Resources has used to put its Escobal silver mine into operation isn’t enough to raise questions about [...]
Guatemalan Elections: A comedy or a tragedy? By Jackie McVicar, BTS Staff Tatamagouche, NS Guatemalan Elections: A comedy or a tragedy? (See our previous post: Guatemalan Elections Go Ahead Amidst Corruption Scandal) Guatemalans marching down 6th Avenue towards the city's Central Plaza. Yesterday, Guatemalans took to the streets [...]
Friends, I write you now upon receiving the news that Guatemalan President Otto Perez Molina has lost his political immunity following a vote in congress this afternoon. Members of a pro-Perez union tried to restrict congress members from entering congress to vote and arrived early this morning with bats and [...]
Guatemala’s National Strike Demands and End to Corruption and Impunity: The week before Guatemala's General Elections sees Hundreds of Thousands of Guatemalans in the Streets August 28, 2015 By Lisa Rankin and Jackie McVicar, BTS Staff Guatemala City & Tatamagouche Thousands of Guatemalans gather in the Central Plaza during [...]
ONCE AGAIN, COMMUNITIES ARE VIOLATED BY THE REPRESSIVE GOVERNMENT OF PEREZ MOLINA To read the original statement in Spanish, click here. On the morning of August 14, the community of Monte Olivo in Cobán Alta Verapaz once more had their rights violated. This time, a large contingent of police forcibly [...]
mining.com http://www.mining.com/ontario-securities-commission-asked-to-probe-tahoe-resources-for-alleged-violence-in-guatemala-79241/ Cecilia Jamasmie | June 3, 2013 Ontario Securities Commission asked to probe Tahoe Resources for alleged violence in Guatemala El Escobal silver project in Guatemala. Transnational organization Justice and Corporate Accountability Project (JCAP) said Monday it has submitted a complaint to Canada's Ontario Securities Commission regarding Tahoe Resources’ [...]
http://org2.salsalabs.com/o/6497/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=13678 Since Friday, March 15, human rights defender and member of the Departmental Assembly of Huehuetenango for the Defense of Natural Resources (ADH), Rubén Herrera, has been unjustly imprisoned for alleged crimes committed in relation to community resistance of the Cambalam hydroelectric dam, operated by Hidro Santa Cruz. Citing 12 [...]
Descripción El pasado 28 de diciembre el gobierno de Guatemala emitió un decreto que cuestiona las facultades y desobedece sentencias de la Corte Interamericana de Derechos Humanos (CIDH). Este acuerdo es un pacto de impunidad para las élites militares, que durante la guerra interna en Guatemala desaparecieron, torturaron, masacraron, asesinaron [...]
Pérez Molina suspende el acuerdo que limita la competencia de la CorteIDH en Guatemala Guatemala, 3 ene (EFE).- El presidente de Guatemala, Otto Pérez Molina, suspendió hoy el decreto por el que el Estado determinó que no reconocerá los fallos emitidos por la Corte Interamericana de Derechos Humanos (CorteIDH) sobre [...]
El Grupo de Apoyo Mutuo expresa públicamente su descontento frente a la actitud del gobierno del Otto Pérez Molina, que el día de hoy ha publicado el acuerdo gubernativo 370-2012, en el cual pretende restarle fuerza a las sentencias de la Corte Interamericana de Derechos Humanos. En dicho acuerdo establece [...]
