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DocuLatino 4

Sat, 04/02/2012 - 19:02 - Thomas DM

CATAPA presents - from February 14th until March 15th - DocuLatino IV, a Latin American documentary festival. This edition puts forward the problems of the gold mining and oil industry.

While big transnational corporations make lots of profits, countries in the Souts are left with a huge social and ecological mess. Local ecosystems are devastated, rural communities lose their farmland, toxic products poison the drinking water for years. The consequences are desastrous, and often irreversible.

RealNewsNetwork: Is Canada's Gold Corp. Good for Guatemala?

Wed, 23/11/2011 - 02:49 - Gast

Lyuba Zarsky: Environmental and health effects are a violation of human rights

Goldcorp Removed from Dow Jones Sustainability Index

Thu, 22/09/2011 - 19:43 - gsteenss

(Ottawa) Effective September 19th, Goldcorp has been removed from the Dow Jones North America Sustainability Index. The announcement comes in the context of ongoing allegations of human rights violations and evidence of environmental contamination in communities affected by Goldcorp’s mining activities.

Goldcorp's Marlin mine in Guatemala attracts criticism ahead of Vancouver meeting

Thu, 12/05/2011 - 21:09 - gsteenss

Melanie Schambach vividly remembers her body’s reaction when she came near a mine-tailings pond in the western highlands of Guatemala.

The Canadian visual artist was travelling in the country of her mother’s birth early this year to document the impact of the operations of Goldcorp, a Vancouver-based mining company that will hold its annual shareholders’ meeting at the Pan Pacific Hotel on Wednesday (May 18).

DocuLatino 3 - Antwerp, Ghent and Leuven

Sat, 15/01/2011 - 17:47 - Thomas DM

CATAPA presents - from February 14th until March 3rd  - DocuLatino III, a Latin American documentary festival. This edition puts forward the problems of the gold mining and oil industry.

International press note: Canadian mining company illegally discharges contaminated water in Guatemalan rivers

Fri, 15/10/2010 - 22:03 - Nik

 Arsenic concentrations 26 times higher than WHO health standards

Ghent/San Marcos, 15 of October 2010 - In September the Guatemalan Ministry of Environment caught the Canadian mining company Goldcorp on illegal discharges of its water basin into the rivers of San Miguel Ixtahuacán. At first Goldcorp made it seem like the discharges had happened by the rules, but gave no reaction after the Ministry published an accusation against the mining company.

4 community consultations on mining in October in Guatemala

Thu, 23/09/2010 - 18:31 - bart.vanbesien

October 2010 is a month that will be long remembered in the highlands of Guatemala. In that month, 4 community consultations will take place on the issue of mining. That would be the 43rd, 44th, 45th and 46th community consultation at the municipal level in the highlands.

It is noteworthy that so far in all the consultations that have taken place, the population has unanimously spoken out against mining.

President of Supreme Court Responsible for Illegal Acquisition of Communal lands

Fri, 03/09/2010 - 19:01 - bart.vanbesien

That the mining activities of the Marlin Mine in San Miguel Ixtahuacán, exploited by Montana Exploradora, subsidiary of Goldcorp, constitute violations of human and indigenous rights and of Guatemalan law has been a known fact from the onset. Now, the excellent legal researchers of the mining resistance movement in the west of Guatemala, brought to light that the act of buying of the lands of San Miguel constituted a mere crime to Guatemalan law. The person accused of this crime is no one less than the current president of the Supreme Court of Guatemala.

New Evidence Supports Suspension of Guatemalan Mine

Wed, 01/09/2010 - 00:14 - gsteenss
Three new reports find human rights violations, water contamination, and other concerns at Marlin gold mine

[PRESS RELEASE] CATAPA worried about increased violence in Guatemala

Mon, 23/08/2010 - 20:44 - Thomas DM

Government of Guatemala responsible for increased violence against local population

With the greatest urgency CATAPA asks the suspension of all activities of the Marlin mine and the application of the other precautionary measures which the Interamerican Commission for Human Rights requested of the Guatemalan government.