HONDURAS - Goldcorp and Mining Health Harms, Cover-up #3
SICK EX-MINING COMPANY EMPLOYEES PROTEST IN FRONT OF THE SUPREME COURT OF JUSTICE
19 noviembre, 2011, La Tribuna
(Translated by Rights Action)
http://www.latribuna.hn/2011/11/19/enfermos-y-exempleados-de-minera-protestaran-frente-a-csj/
TEGUCIGALPA. Siria Valley inhabitants, whose wellbeing was affected by their jobs at the EntreMares mining company [subsidiary of Goldcorp Inc] will protest next Wednesday at the Supreme Court, to demand compensation from the State for damages caused to their health.
Those who worked for the mining company in Siria Valley are demanding compensation due to the presence of heavy metals in their blood, which will keep them out of work for the rest of their lives.
Those who will protest "are employees and ex employees of the EntreMares [Goldcorp] company, many worked in extraction, others with heavy machinery and due to their contact with the chemicals used by this industry, such as cyanide, they became ill, but have not yet received compensation", informed the representative of the Association of Environmentalist Journalists of Honduras, Eduardo Yánez.
He added that "these people have heavy metals in their blood. That is why they have been demanding compensation for two years now, since now they are all disqualified from working elsewhere".
He commented that when the company they worked for "realized how sick they were, they fired them and although they had labor rights, they didn't pay their compensations - despite the fact they showed that their health problem was caused by a work related illness".
Accordingly, this group of people will be at the entrance of the Supreme Court demanding justice from the Judges and Magistrates "so that in Honduras the laws start to be applied, once and for all, because the health of human beings is priceless. There should be punishment in this case".
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- Link to May 10, 2012, radio interview, CBC "The Current", about Canadian nickel mining in Guatemala, and about how then Canadian ambassador to Guatemala slandered the "El Estor Evictions" documentary film
- Links to "El Estor Evictions" and "All That Glitters Isn't Gold" films by Steven Schnoor
- Media release by Klippensteins law firm, June 2010, Concerning slander ruling against Canadian government and ambassador to Guatemala
- Toronto Star story, June 17, 2010, "Former Canadian ambassador guilty of slander"
- New Internationalist story, September 2010, "Cook feels the heat. Canadian ambassador to Guatemala guilty of slander"
Articles collected and forwarded by www.miningwatch.ca, concerning repression in Argentina, near the Alumbrera mine, in benefit of the mine owners: Xstrata Copper, Goldcorp Inc. and Yamana Gold Inc.
Even as Honduras is now known as the 'murder capital' of the world, even as Honduras is known as one of the 'journalist-killing capitals' of the world, and even as it has become a 'LGBT repression and killing capital' as well, the Congress in Honduras (the same Congress that rubber-stamped the illegal and violent 2009 military coup) is aiming to pass a new Mining Law. The global (mainly Canadian) mining industry is waiting to rush in.
Press release, from Mining Watch & CIEL - that the IACHR (Inter-American Commission of Human Rights) has rescinded its "suspension order" of Goldcorp's cyanide-leaching, open-pit / mountain-top removal mine in Guatemala.
News article about recent water studies that again have documented water contamination near Goldcorp's mine.
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