Organizations

Breaking the Silence Network (BTS), Canada & Guatemala — breakingthesilenceblog.com

Choc vs. Hudbay, compiled by lawyer Cory Wanless — chocversushudbay.com
Lawsuits against HudBay Minerals Inc. over human rights abuses in Guatemala

Colectivo MadreSelva — madreselva.org.gt

Comisión Pastoral Paz y Ecología (COPAE), Guatemala — copaeguatemala.org/2021

Consejo de los Pueblos Maya de Occidente (CPO), Guatemala — consejodepueblosdeoccidente.blogspot.com

Fundación de Antropología Forense de Guatemala (FAFG), Guatemala — fafg.org

Facultad Latinoamericano de Ciencias Sociales Guatemala (FLACSO), Guatemala — flacso.edu.gt

Guatemala Human Rights Commission (GHRC), US & Guatemala — ghrc-usa.org

MiMundo, Guatemala — mimundo.org

Mining Injustice Solidarity Network (MISN), Canada — mininginjustice.org

Mining Justice Alliance, Canada — miningjusticealliance.wordpress.com

MiningWatch, Canada — miningwatch.ca

Network in Solidarity with the People of Guatemala (NISGUA), US & Guatemala — nisgua.org

Rights Action, US & Canada — rightsaction.org

Unidad de Protección a Defensoras y Defensores de Derechos Humanos (UDEFEGUA), Guatemala — udefegua.org

United for Mining Justice, Canada — unitedforminingjustice.com

Guatemalan
News

Centro de Medios Independientes (CMI) — cmiguate.org; @cmiguate 

Festivales Solidarios — panal.gt; @festivalesgt
Artistas/gestores, investigadores y diseñadores que trabajamos: memoria histórica, defensa del territorio y prisión política [Solidarity Festivals: Artists / managers, researchers, and designers we work with: historical memory, defence of the territory and political prison]

Nómada — nomada.gt; @nomadagt 
Independiente, feminista, investigativo, nómada—Periodismo transparente [Nomad: Independent, Feminist, Investigative, Nomad— Transparent Journalism]

Prensa Comunitaria — prensacomunitaria.org; @prensacomunitar
Agencia de noticias desde las ciencias sociales, periodismo comunitario e indígena, arte y feminismos [Community Press: News agency coming from the social sciences, community and Indigenous journalism, art and feminisms]

Ruda — rudagt.org; @ruda_gt
Revista digital—mujeres + territorio [Ruda: Digital magazine— women + territory]

Other Recommended News

We recommend: Gray Zone, Democracy Now, DropSite News, Real News Network, CounterPunch, Intercept, Canadian Foreign Policy Institute, Breach, rabble.ca, Orinoco Tribune, Al Jazeera News (coverage of Palestine), …

Follow work of other solidarity/NGO groups

Reports

Amnesty International. Creating a Paradigm Shift: Legal Solutions to Improve Access to Remedy for Corporate Human Rights Abuse. London, UK: Business and Human Rights Resource Centre, 2017. https://www.amnesty.org/en/documents/pol30/7037/2017/en/

Amnesty International. Mining in Guatemala: Rights at Risk. London, UK: Amnesty International Secretariat, 2014. https://www.amnesty.org/en/documents/amr34/002/2014/en/

Global Affairs Canada. Building the Canadian Advantage: A Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Strategy for the Canadian International Extractive Sector. Ottawa, ON: Government of Canada, 2009. international.gc.ca/trade-agreements-accords-commerciaux/topics-domaines/other-autre/csr-strat-rse-2009.aspx

Global Affairs Canada. Doing Business the Canadian Way: A Strategy to Advance Corporate Social Responsibility in Canada’s Extractive Sector Abroad. Ottawa, ON: Government of Canada, 2014. international.gc.ca/trade-agreements-accords-commerciaux/topics-domaines/other-autre/csr-strat-rse.aspx

Russell, Grahame. Canadian Companies Mining with the Genocidal Generals in Guatemala. Toronto, ON: Rights Action, 2020. rightsaction.org/articles/canadian-companies-mining-with- the-genocidal-generals-in-guatemala

Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and International Trade. Mining in Developing Countries: Corporate Social Responsibility. Ottawa, ON: Government of Canada, 2005. ourcommons.ca/DocumentViewer/en/38-1/FAAE/report-14/

Films

Schmidt, Rachel, dir. Defensora. 2013. 6kidsProductions. vimeo.com/329494479

Sherburne, Andrew, J. T. Haines, and Tommy Haines, dirs. Gold Fever. 2013. Northland Productions.

Becker, Manfred, and Angela Andersen, dirs. In Search of a Perfect World. 2018. Canadian Broadcasting Company (CBC). gem.cbc.ca/media/media/docs-special-presentation/episode-20/38e815a-00fea780d27

“Paradise Lost.” W5. CTV, 2010. ctvnews.ca/w5- searching- for- gold-at- the- end- of- the-guatemalan-rainbow-1.502718.188 

Schnoor, Steven, filmographer, and James Rodríguez, photographer. Violent Evictions at El Estor, Guatemala—updated. Video file, Youtube. 2010 [2007]. youtube.com/watch?v=JgwtLuISE1Y&t=10s

Books

Camus, Manuela, Santiago Bastos, and Julián López García. Dinosaurio reloaded: violencias actuales en Guatemala. Guatemala City: FLACSO y Fundación Constelación, 2015.

Copeland, Nicholas. The Democracy Development Machine: Neoliberalism, Radical Pessimism, and Authoritarian Populism in Mayan Guatemala. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2019.

Deonandan, Kalowatie, and Michael Dougherty. Mining in Latin America: Critical Approaches to the New Extraction. Oxon, UK: Routledge, 2016.

Galeano, Eduardo. The Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent, Cedric Belfrage. New York: Monthly Review Press, 1997 [1973].

Gordon, Todd, and Jeffery Webber. Blood of Extraction: Canadian Imperialism in Latin America. Halifax, NS: Fernwood Publishing, 2016.

Granovsky-Larsen, Simon. Dealing with Peace: The Guatemalan Campesino Movement and the Post-conflict Neoliberal State. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2019.

Henighan, Stephen, and Candace Johnson. Human and Environmental Justice in Guatemala. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2018. 

Instituto Centroamericano de Estudios Fiscales (ICEFI). La minería en Guatemala: realidad y desafíos frente a la democracia y el desarrollo. Guatemala: ICEFI, 2014. 

Lovell, W. George. A Beauty That Hurts: Life and Death in Guatemala. 4th ed. Toronto: Between the Lines, 2019. 

McFarlane, Peter. Northern Shadows: Canadians and Central America. Toronto: Between the Lines, 1989. 

North, Liisa, Timothy D. Clark, and Viviana Patroni. Community Rights and Corporate Responsibility: Canadian Mining and Oil Companies in Latin America. Toronto: Between the Lines, 2006. 

Russell, Grahame. The Never Ending (1993) & Code Z59.5 There Is Only One People (2010)

Solano, Luís. Guatemala: Petróleo y minería en las entrañas del poder. Guatemala City: Infopress Centroamericano, 2005. 

Dissertations
& Theses

Caxaj, C. Susana. “Gold Mining in Guatemala: Community Health and Resistance amidst Violence.” PhD diss. in Nursing, University of Western Ontario, 2013, ir.lib.uwo.ca/etd/1563 

Connolly, Charlotte. “Exporting Canada’s Extractives Approach to Development: The Nexus of Law, Violence and Development in the Case of Tahoe Resources Inc. in Guatemala.” Master’s thesis in Natural Resources and Environmental Studies (NRES-Geography), University of Northern British Columbia, 2019, core.ac.uk/download/ pdf/236972598.pdf 

Davis Matthews, Merle. “Researching Extraction, Refusing Extractive Research.” Master’s thesis in Science and Technology Studies, York University, 2018. 

Laplante, J. P. “La Voz del Pueblo: Maya Consultas and the Challenge of Self-Determination for Socially Responsible Investment in the Mining Sector.” Master’s thesis in Natural Resources and Environmental Studies (NRES-Geography), University of Northern British Columbia, 2014, wizard.unbc.ca/record=b2050760~S3 

McNabb, Chase. “Valuing Vigilance: Confronting the Role of Canadian Mining Companies in Resource Colonialism in Guatemala.” Master’s thesis in Human Rights Studies, Columbia University, 2018, doi.org/10.7916/D8SF4D4X

Pedersen, Alexandra. “¡Somos La Puya! (We Are La Puya!): Community Resistance to Canadian Mining Company Operations in Guatemala.” PhD diss. in Geography, Queen’s University, 2018, CN: https://qspace. library.queensu.ca/handle/1974/24499

Schnoor, Steven. “Governmentality and the New Spirit of Exploitation: The Politics of Legitimacy and Resistance to Canadian Mining in Guatemala and Honduras.” PhD diss. in Communication and Culture (Joint Program), Ryerson and York Universities, 2013, digital.library. ryerson.ca/islandora/object/RULA%3A2696

Small, Rachel. “‘¡Agua, Vida, y Maíz! ¡Minería Fuera del País!’: A Praxis Project in Solidarity with Communities Resisting Canadian Mining in Guatemala.” Master’s thesis in Environmental Studies, York University, 2015, hdl.handle.net/10315/30212

Stephens, Jacqueline. “Conflicting Perspectives: Neoliberal Resource Development, Indigenous Communities, and Modern Canadian Imperialism in Guatemala.” Master’s thesis in Interdisciplinary Studies, University of Northern British Columbia, 2006, doi.org/10.24124/2006/bpgub376

Sveinsdóttir, Anna. “Corporate-Community Mining Conflicts in Guatemala: Unsettling Hegemonic Power Relations in Environmental Struggles.” PhD diss. in Geography, University of Denver, 2019, digitalcommons.du.edu/etd/1626