Aura Minerals
Since 2014, Rights Action has supported the Azacualpa community defense struggle, when the U.S.-mining company Aura Minerals (formerly Canadian) began illegally exhuming bodies from the 200-year-old Azacualpa Cemetery (now completely destroyed), to get at the gold underneath. Now, Aura continues their open-pit, cyanide-leaching gold mine operation, further up the mountain ridge through the actual community of Azacualpa.
2001 June 25 - “From Quebec to Copan; Globalization and the Case of San Andres Minas”, by M. Marsh
2007 September 14 - Canadian Mining Company (Yamana Gold) Discharges Cyanide into Lara River
2010 September 10 - “Military Coups, Mining & Canadian Involvement”, by K. Spring
2011 December 12 - Letter to Aura Minerals: Death Threats at your Honduras Mine Site
2014 November 12 - “Canada-based Aura Minerals Ready to Dig up the Dead in Honduras”, by K. Spring
2016 January 09 - Communique - Azacualpa Environmental Committee
2016 June 30 - Aura Minerals to Proceed to Dig Up Azacualpa Cemetery on July 1st..?
2017 March 17 - Update: Aura Minerals Set to Start Destruction of 200 Year Old Cemetery in Honduras
2017 July 13 - Aura Minerals ALERT in Honduras - Public Statement
2017 September 07 - Aura Minerals digging up cadavers in Honduars, to get at more gold - Update
2018 May 15 - Letter to Global Affaits & Cnd Embassy in Honduras
2018 September 02 - No to Aura Minerals Destruction of Azacualpa Cemetery
2019 March 26 - Aura Minerals blowing up Honduras in partnership with corrupt, repressive regime
2019 November 27 - Aura Minerals linked to drug trafficking & money laundering in Honduras
2019 December 13 - “Where even the Dead can’t rest”, 6 minute film by Trocaire
2020 June 16 - Azacualpa villagers resist Aura Minerals/MINOSA’s Covid19-spreading mine
2020 August 20 - Aura Minerals blowing up Azacualpa Cemetery hill
2020 August 27 - U.S. company Aura Minerals threatening members of Azacualpa
2021 June 04 - Aura Minerals Cyanide Waste Discharges Kill Horses and Fish in Azacualpa, Honduras
2022 February 23 - Alerta! Mining company to carry out blasting in Maya Chortí cemetery in Azacualpa
2022 July 05 - Death threats linked to US mining company Aura Minerals