Interview with Byron Estuardo Paredes (PDH) on the ways mining violates Indigenous rights
The office of the Guatemalan Human Rights Ombudsperson (PDH) is accompanying the Xinka Parliament as it fights to uphold a Constitutional Court ruling ordering the Xinka be consulted on the Escobal mine. On September 3, 2018, the Constitutional Court
Xinka Parliament Announces Breakthrough in Escobal Mine Consultation Process, Rejects Pan American Silver’s Bad Faith
On October 15, 2020, the Xinka Parliament announced that Guatemalan authorities have finally recognized their representatives elected to participate in a consultation on the Escobal silver mine. Along with other agreements, this breakthrough could allow the court-ordered process over
Impacts of mining: Examples from Pan American Silver’s operations in Latin America
Pan American Silver is a Canadian mining company founded in 1994 that began operations with just one project -- the Quiruvilca mine in Peru. Since then, it has grown to become one of the world’s largest silver
Public Statement: Communities from the Meseta region in Argentina tell Pan American Silver to get out!
Public StatementTo the Mapuche Tehuelche People and the general population We, the undersigned Mapuche Tehuelche communities of the central northern “Meseta” region of Chubut, once again express our profound rejection of mega-mining. Specifically, we reject the Navidad Project, in the
“Our ancestral organizing practices are helping prevent the spread of COVID-19 in Xinka territory”
As the effects of COVID-19 continue to be felt unequally around the globe, Xinka communities are finding new ways to organize and care for each other, while firmly rooting their response in ancestral ways of organizing that have
40+ organizations sign letter in solidarity with the Xinka People in Guatemala
Photo credit: Breaking the Silence. The national and international organizations signatories to this letter on the occasion of Pan American Silver’s annual shareholder meeting, express our deep concern with regard to the Escobal mining project and the state-led consultation process