It was reported July 7, 2020, that the owners of INCOBE, a Honduran heavy machinery company partnered with US and Canadian mining company Aura Minerals, must remain in pre-trial detention. They are accused of involvement with drug-trafficking organized crime.
Karen Yajaira Rodriguez, Azacualpa villager, blocking INCOBE/Aura Minerals machinery (November 2018) f
rom destroying 200 year-old cemetery and (eventually) forcing relocation of their village
In November 2019, we re-published information from Karen Spring (Honduras Solidarity Network), that INCOBE (Inversiones y Comercializadora Benitez), the major heavy machinery business partner of Aura Minerals and its Honduran subsidiary company MINOSA, has been criminally accused drug trafficking and money laundering.
And that SESER (Servicios Especiales de Seguridad), the private security business partner of Aura Minerals/MINOSA, has been linked to illicit drug trafficking activities links to Tony Hernandez, convicted drug-trafficking brother of Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez who, himself, is alleged to be directly involved in drug-trafficking.
Courageous community defense struggle
Since 2014, Rights Action has supported the Azacualpa Environment and Cemetery Defense Committee, in their environment, territory, human rights defense struggle against the harms and violence caused by this mine.
This support continues today, as they provide emergency food and health support to community members, in response to Covid19, while resisting the on-going operation of Aura Minerals’ drug-trafficking linked mining company!
More information
Hector Antonio Trigueros, Comité ambientalista de Azacualpa (https://www.facebook.com/azacualparesiste/)
Lisbeth Jimenez, ASONOG (https://asonog.hn/)
Grahame Russell, Rights Action (https://rightsaction.org)
Karen Spring, Honduras Solidarity Network, spring.kj@gmail.com
Aura Minerals/MINOSA
info@auraminerals.com / +1 305-239-9332 / www.auraminerals.com
155 University Ave, Toronto, ON M5H 4B6, Canada
78 SW 7th St, Aura Minerals @ WeWork, Miami, FL 33130, USA
Craigmuir Chambers, PO Box 71, VG1110, British Virgin Islands
Management
Rodrigo Barbosa, President & CEO, rbarbosa@auraminerals.com;
Sergio Castanho, SCastanho@auraminerals.com;
João Kleber Cardoso, kcardoso@auraminerals.com;
Richmond Fenn, rfenn@auraminerals.com;
Monty Reed, mreed@auraminerals.com;
Board
Rodrigo Barbosa, President & CEO, rbarbosa@auraminerals.com;
Stephen Keith, snskeith@gmail.com;
Philip Reade, philip.reade@outlook.com;
Rights Action’s Covid19 response fund
Supporting indigenous & campesino communities, Honduras & Guatemala
(Updated: June 12, 2020)
