Company has its eyes set on destruction of community of Azacualpa, a few meters from the cemetery.

The Guatemalan State continues to violate the rights of indigenous peoples in the municipality of El Estor, at the request of the mining company Solway Investment Group (Suisa-Russia) and CGN-Pronico.

Continuan violaciones a los derechos de los pueblos indigenas por el Estado Guatemalteco en el municipio de El Estor, a peticion de la empresa minera Solway Investment Group (Suisa-Rusa) y CGN-Pronico.

“In Guatemala, the state and three branches of government have been co-opted by criminal networks. It is a megastructure including international actors, rooted in Guatemala’s past”

Justice still not done for this US-backed massacred

On the cover of TESTIMONIO is Diodora Antonia Hernandez Cinto, a Mayan Mam campesina woman who refused to sell her plot of land to Goldcorp Inc., formerly a Canadian company now bought out by Newmont Gold. The community defense struggle of the Mam people is one of the mining resistance struggles addressed in TESTIMONIO.

Recently, the international media has focused considerable critical media attention on a nickel mining operation in Guatemala owned by the Switzerland-based Solway Investment Group.

Below: An article about a new series of reports from 20 international media outlets about mining linked corruption infiltrating the highest levels of the Guatemalan state and government

While millions of impoverished, mainly Indigenous Guatemalans eek out subsistence lives on dry, poor lands, the global sugar industry monopolizes (corruptly and violently) virtually all the richest lands in the country, producing sugar cane with high levels of worker exploitation and environmental destruction, to provide consumers in wealthy countries with “low cost” sugar products.

The Federal Court just ruled that the Canadian government is not required to disclose details about its secretive, corrupt and probably illegal diplomatic interventions on behalf of Goldcorp Inc., now Newmont Gold, operating its very harmful open-pit, cyanide leaching gold mine in Mayan territories of western Guatemala from 2004-2018.