Guatemala Network Solidarity
Kevo Dell
In a series of tweets, in Spanish, The Extractive Industries Observatory (El Observatorio de Industrias Extractivas – OIE) has introduced a thread about the Cerro ...
YSUCA
The Cerro Blanco mine is located just 15 kilometres from the border with El Salvador, in the municipality of Asunción Mita in the department of Jutiapa, Guatemala. Since 2006, the project has posed ...
ACAFREMIN
Cerro Blanco a mining project operated by Canadian company bluestone resources is located in the municipality of Asunción Mita, Guatemala. The Cerro Blanco mine could endanger the lives of more ...
... and financial machinery to restart operations at the Cerro Blanco mine, there is still a veil of secrecy and silence in the surrounding communities located near the megaproject.
Worker guards the entrance ...
Oscar Humberto Luna
The Cerro Blanco mining project in Guatemala is a threat to El Salvador’s water quality and quantity. This report describes possible human rights violations that may impact the Salvadoran ...
Given the recent announcement by Goldcorp Inc. on the indefinite suspension of the Cerro Blanco mining project, the most advanced project in the border of El Salvador and Guatemala, the National Roundtable ...
... Salvador to deliver a letter addressed to Guatemalan President Otto Perez Molina to express concerns related to the Cerro Blanco mining project in the border with El Salvador.
The letter delivered ...
... for miners and likely reduce the production of metals such as copper in a boost to metal prices.
Volcan and Cerro Verde were among the worst performers on the S&P / BVL Peru General Index in Monday afternoon ...
... operations are reported. In November 2020, the Peruvian research outlet Ojo Público published a report entitled: “The lead poisoned children of Cerro de Pasco expect justice“, based on a field investigation ...
... activities of those countries do not harm our environment. The Cerro Blanco project, owned by Canadian company Bluestone Resources, is already operating with dubious permits in Guatemala, the main concern ...
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For example, the Cerro Blanco mine, located in the Guatemalan municipality of Asunción Mita, bordering on western El Salvador, is part of the Ostua-Guija-Lempa basin.
The pollution generated by the ...
... lethal, they will pollute our aquifers. We are already threatened with the Cerro Blanco mine in Guatemala, if it becomes exploited it will contaminate Lake Güija and by extension the Lempa river would ...
... lethal, they will pollute our aquifers. We are already threatened with the Cerro Blanco mine in Guatemala, if it becomes exploited it will contaminate Lake Güija and by extension the Lempa river would ...
... Honduras. It teems with dragonflies and butterflies. The hill is called Cerro Patacon, named after a bloodsucking insect. “We do not want new bloodsuckers to come here and plunder this landscape”. People ...
... their right".
MORATORIUM AGAINST MINING
It takes a 15-minute bumpy ride on a pick-up truck to arrive at the feet of Cerro Patacon, one of the highest elevations in the hilly panorama. One can only reach ...
... stations through the municipality distributed among the cantons of the town: Pepeto and Portillo, with 3 ballot boxes; Teosinte and Sicahuite located in the the lower area of Arcatao 2 polls; Cerrón Grande ...
Photos/translation: Marina Bonetti
Citizens of the communities of Cicachuite, Cerro Grande, Teosinte, Chavarria, El Sitio, Los Rivera, Los Guardado, El Portillo, Los Alas, Los Orellana, Los Merino, ...
... by Canadian based corporations Pacific Rim, which has an exploration license at Cerro Petancol in the town of Potonico, and Au Martinique, now Triad, which owns licenses to explore three concessions within ...
... discuss the impact of the Cerro Blanco Mine in El Salvador.
Days six and seven:
Participate as international observers in a community consultation process in Chalatenango.
Day eight:
Press ...