https://www.testimoniothebook.org/home daily 1.0 2025-05-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60ad5f9747592c2e0dfcf935/1632870830208-SZOTPVI96AIYCQ01NVXT/Testimonio_Cover.jpg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60ad5f9747592c2e0dfcf935/a2e72de3-00a9-4e9c-bd1f-354a7a6f5d93/Hudbay+13+Plaintiffs.JPG.jpeg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60ad5f9747592c2e0dfcf935/464d42c2-0d76-4966-a0cf-cb0a5b77c513/unnamed+%2876%29.png https://www.testimoniothebook.org/in-the-media daily 0.75 2025-05-14 https://www.testimoniothebook.org/catherine-grahame daily 0.75 2025-05-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60ad5f9747592c2e0dfcf935/1622513109632-LZN1QPK5ZAD5EB8WKBVS/unnamed+-+2021-05-31T210457.536.jpg Catherine & Grahame - Rabinal Maya Achi community ‘historic memory’ museum, Guatemala ( Photo: Brian Gorlick, January 2020) Tobias Keene, D.D.S. Hailing from Richmond, Virginia, Dr. Tobias Keene brings a bit of unabashed Southern hospitality to all his patients. He moved to Washington, D.C. over thirty years ago as a freshman at Ivy College. Right after graduation, he attended World University’s School of Dentistry. Before opening Keene Dental in 1994, he worked for free clinics and some of the finest practices in the District. He is part of the 123 Dental Association and stays up-to-date on the latest dental discoveries. When not striving to keep his patients happy and healthy, he’s enjoys hiking with his family in Rock Creek Park. https://www.testimoniothebook.org/photos daily 0.75 2025-05-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60ad5f9747592c2e0dfcf935/ed9cac7c-4d09-41eb-b19a-fea0aa87b6df/07.04miningconflictivity.jpg Photos - Make it stand out Figure 16. Mining Conflictivity: CGN and Lote Ocho. From left to right: Carmelina Caal Ical, Margarita Caal Caal, Rosa Elbira Coc Ich, Amalia Cac Tiul, Lucia Caal Chun, and Olivia Asig Xol, all six women plaintiffs in the Caal vs. Hudbay legal case in Canada, here in their community of Lote Ocho. Lote Ocho, El Estor, Izabal, Guatemala, September 29, 2014. Photo: James Rodríguez. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60ad5f9747592c2e0dfcf935/1633208685210-IP45ZMU5HPJS0UMRISH1/CANON+124.jpg Photos - Make it stand out May 7 - Barrio Revolución, El Estor, Izabal, Guatemala Barrio Revolución, a community of approximately 90 families, rebuilding after Skye Resources/CGN burned down their community in late 2006 Photo: JP Laplante https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60ad5f9747592c2e0dfcf935/1632873134905-O1J9T62ILLZN4L8L0UWZ/2018-05-09+12.33.17.jpg Photos 9 May 2018 Salitre, San Marcos Aniseto López Díaz, Maya Mam farmer & leader of community movements resisting and denouncing harms and violations caused by Goldcorp Inc.’s Marlin mine in western Guatemala. He has suffered attacks, criminalizations and threats, for his community defense work - with Grahame Russell and UNBC Delegation/Field School Photo: Catherine Nolin https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60ad5f9747592c2e0dfcf935/1633029079570-Q24SPHTMEVYJ82FJKMJ4/IMG_0102.jpg Photos - Make it stand out 26 May 2012 La Puya Resistance, San José del Golfo / San Pedro Ayampuc One of the community spokespersons - Antonio “Tono” Reyes - describes this as a struggle for LIFE. He said to us - 'don't be ashamed to be Canadians. There are bad people in Canada just as there are bad people in Guatemala.' They don't blame us for what Radius Gold is doing to their families. He said we must work together as humans. Photo: James Rodríguez https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60ad5f9747592c2e0dfcf935/1632873184744-BGFHGB2N54QVKE8EBP0A/2008+Comitancillo_Boy.jpg Photos 14 May 2008 - Comitancillo, San Marcos -- Goldcorp's expansion plans revealed & community comes together to say 'no.' Sign reads: "No to mining, conserve Mother Earth who nourishes us, no to exploration of natural resources" Photo: Catherine Nolin https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60ad5f9747592c2e0dfcf935/1633208676005-37B7R6F7XOJV1S1A0CER/IMG_0564.JPG Photos - Make it stand out 16 May 2017 La Unión, El Estor, Izabal Maria Choc sharing testimonio for inclusion in the book, with James Rodríguez and Grahame Russell Photo: Catherine Nolin https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60ad5f9747592c2e0dfcf935/1632873250687-EEFM6O6KYXJLPIVEXSXK/IMG_0374.jpg Photos - Make it stand out 15 May 2010 Overlooking the Marlin Mine, San Marcos Carmen Mejía with ADISMI (Association for the Integral Development of San Miguel Ixtahuacán): "Bienvenidos, esta es mi mina. Este es mi desarrollo." Welcome. This is my mine. This is my development." On 12 and 15 June 2010, Carmen received a number of threatening text messages, saying that she shouldn’t defend human rights and that she would be killed. Photo: Catherine Nolin https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60ad5f9747592c2e0dfcf935/1633029134997-0XE675IMZBTR5LGASKIA/F9FA646B-1F5C-402A-9D4D-981877EDEF92_1_105_c.jpeg Photos - Make it stand out 16 May 2016 Guatemala City Lawyer Rafael Maldonado in La Sala de Vistas courtroom of the Guatemalan Supreme Court of Justice Catherine Nolin & James Rodríguez attended a hearing in which lawyers with the Centre for Legal-­‐Environmental and Social Action (CALAS), on behalf of the mining-­‐affected communities, petitioned for the final, definitive suspension of the mining license for the El Tambor mine (Progreso VII Derivada) owned by American-­‐based Kappes, Cassiday & Associates (KCA), previously owned by Radius Gold. Photo: Catherine Nolin https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60ad5f9747592c2e0dfcf935/95e3ab0a-3a20-4258-a9e8-701c5102f8a4/03.01.eviction.jpg Photos - Make it stand out Figure 4. Eviction of Barrio La Revolución. Hired men from the nearby community of Mariscos burn homes at Barrio La Revolución. On January 7, 8, and 9, 2007, the Guatemalan Nickel Company, local subsidiary of Canadian Skye Resources, ordered the forced eviction of five Maya Q’eqchi’ communities around Lake Izabal in both El Estor and Panzós. Over eight hundred State security forces carried out the forced eviction, destroying and even burning many huts in the Indigenous communities who claim the territory as ancestral land. Barrio La Revolución, Chichipate, El Estor, Izabal, Guatemala. January 9, 2007. Photo: James Rodríguez https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60ad5f9747592c2e0dfcf935/1632950028754-LG6JRIJWU0R6FLNIOZFO/UNADJUSTEDNONRAW_thumb_196f.jpg Photos - Make it stand out 5 May 2018 Casillas, Santa Rosa, Guatemala The Permanent Peaceful Resistance / Roadblock that has refused to let any mining-related vehicles or equipment through for several months Photo: Catherine Nolin https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60ad5f9747592c2e0dfcf935/1632949945176-M2E1FUGNY3YNKWSRKSSD/IMG_9350+%281%29.jpg Photos - Make it stand out 13 May 2014 San Rafael las Flores, El Escobal Mine GOLDCORP MAKES US SICK! Merle (second from right) brought this banner from the Mining Injustice Network in Toronto. This is the Canadian-owned Tahoe Resources El Escobal mine but Tahoe is a 'child' of Goldcorp (former CEO of Goldcorp Kevin McArthur stepped down from Goldcorp and started Tahoe - of which Goldcorp owns some 40% of the shares). Photo: Catherine Nolin https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60ad5f9747592c2e0dfcf935/1633208698503-09EOXO7S4ZPLS8POFTFP/2014+UNBC-RA+Ramiro+02.jpg Photos - Make it stand out 19 May 2010 Hike into Lote 8 Hike into the new site where people are trying to recover from the trauma of January 2007. Photo: Catherine Nolin https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60ad5f9747592c2e0dfcf935/1633029185919-PHRRKIEPL2DK4V9KA3M3/GUATE+2012+DAY+02+068.JPG Photos - Make it stand out 26 May 2012 La Puya Resistance, San José del Golfo / San Pedro Ayampuc Strong women leaders, including Yolanda Oqueli (right), spoke of wanting us to feel welcomed by open arms, open to us as human beings, not as Canadians. Two weeks later, Yolanda Oqueli was shot and barely survived an assassination attempt. Photo: Catherine Nolin https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60ad5f9747592c2e0dfcf935/86b896b4-540e-4964-bbbb-44de355a032e/06.02.sanrafaelsiege.jpg Photos - Make it stand out Figure 11 . San Rafael State of Siege. Checkpoint between San Rafael Las Flores and Mataquescuintla during the first day of the Guatemalan government’s declared State of Siege in four municipalities in support of the mining operation of Vancouver-based Tahoe Resources. Numerous constitutional rights were suspended for thirty days. Mataquescuintla, Jalapa, Guatemala, May 2, 2013. Photo: James Rodríguez. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60ad5f9747592c2e0dfcf935/1632950000174-RUE3FZGH8YBQELC60J28/IMG_9362.jpg Photos - Make it stand out 13 May 2014 San Juan Bosco carried out a consulta "community consultation of good faith" on 17 February 2013, just a month before the Guatemalan government ordered a state of siege and suspended a range of of rights (right of association, for example) and sent in the security forces to intimidate, capture, and imprison people opposed to the mine. 99% voted against mining. Photo: Catherine Nolin https://www.testimoniothebook.org/unbc-field-study daily 0.75 2025-05-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60ad5f9747592c2e0dfcf935/c0cec1f6-95fa-490d-a79d-dd1ea12e85e5/WhatsApp+Image+2022-10-31+at+1.51.03+PM.jpeg UNBC Field Study https://www.testimoniothebook.org/publisher daily 0.75 2025-05-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60ad5f9747592c2e0dfcf935/1624486884497-P4A4JOTZ33UEDN682WUO/Screen+Shot+2021-06-23+at+5.17.06+PM.png Publisher - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.testimoniothebook.org/goldcorp-photos daily 0.75 2023-03-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60ad5f9747592c2e0dfcf935/e236f85a-8b08-42f2-b678-5d384103f364/09-01.GC.SMI-Doctor+%2815%29.JPG Goldcorp Photos CANADIAN MINE ACCUSED OF CAUSING SKIN INFECTIONS By Bill Law, BBC news Reporter, Radio 4 Crossing Continents http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7934513.stm https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60ad5f9747592c2e0dfcf935/9ce8ba9d-dd29-44c1-a3b4-571d027114b7/GUATE+2008+CN+405.jpg Goldcorp Photos May 13, 2008: Goldcorp/Montana Exploradora's Marlin mine Meeting with Regional Environmental Manager Lisa Wade: On the backside of the 70m tailings pond dam -- Ms Wade argued that the front of the dam or "the beach," as she called it, may be unattractive to us, but to her & her colleagues it was "beautiful." Photo: Catherine Nolin https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60ad5f9747592c2e0dfcf935/94a7ae87-66be-42e3-a7e0-54eb20ec7b55/GUATE+2008+CN+440.jpg Goldcorp Photos 13 May 2008 - San Miguel Ixtahuacán, Goldcorp's Marlin mine: Meeting with community members experiencing health problems they attribute to the mine, with Veronica Haddon Photo: Catherine Nolin https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60ad5f9747592c2e0dfcf935/f79dffe0-e5be-457f-84d4-bd805409b94c/2008+Goldcorp+expansion+Comitancillo+07+women+with+sign.jpg Goldcorp Photos 14 May 2008 - Comitancillo, San Marcos -- Rally to oppose Goldcorp's expansion plans: 'No to mining, conserve Mother Earth who nourishes us, no to exploration of natural resources' Photo: Catherine Nolin https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60ad5f9747592c2e0dfcf935/1d6246ad-ea59-4bcd-83b1-90163da1a615/2008+Comitancillo_Boy.jpg Goldcorp Photos 14 May 2008 - Comitancillo, San Marcos -- Goldcorp's expansion plans revealed & community comes together to say 'no.' Sign reads: "No to mining, conserve Mother Earth who nourishes us, no to exploration of natural resources" Photo: Catherine Nolin https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60ad5f9747592c2e0dfcf935/e30e689b-cb90-4411-a287-b1e488eb8b40/IMG_0374.jpg Goldcorp Photos 15 May 2010 Overlooking the Marlin Mine, San Marcos Carmen Mejía with ADISMI (Association for the Integral Development of San Miguel Ixtahuacán): "Bienvenidos, esta es mi mina. Este es mi desarrollo." Welcome. This is my mine. This is my development." On 12 and 15 June 2010, Carmen received a number of threatening text messages, saying that she shouldn’t defend human rights and that she would be killed. Photo: Catherine Nolin https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60ad5f9747592c2e0dfcf935/a1151fd7-5b59-46dc-8e0b-6b68c0821e7d/IMG_0347.jpg Goldcorp Photos 15 May 2010 Agel, San Marcos - near the Marlin mine Accompanied ADISMI to visit the home of one of the 5 women -- "the GOLDCORP 5" -- facing criminal charges from Goldcorp for organizing a peaceful protest on Earth Day which temporarily closed a road intersection which was one way to enter the mine. How will they defend themselves against the "economic monster" of Goldcorp? Several of these women face other criminal charges as well Photo: Catherine Nolin https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60ad5f9747592c2e0dfcf935/1d884c82-04f2-42f2-8beb-f6f1bc47ff00/UNADJUSTEDNONRAW_thumb_ce1.jpg Goldcorp Photos 14 May 2016: San José Nueva Esperanza, San Miguel Ixtahuacan, San Marcos, Guatemala. Rights Action director Grahame Russell takes notes as Diodora Hernández (right, with hat) speaks to the Canadian Mining Impunity Emergency Delegation investigating the ongoing abuses of Canadian mining companies in Guatemala. Diodora’s daughter Maria stands beside her. Also here (L-R): James Rodríguez, Aniseto López, Cole Chapman and Steven Schnoor (with video camera) Photo: Catherine Nolin https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60ad5f9747592c2e0dfcf935/fa350fd2-7b5c-4044-a6d6-bc8fd7af0143/IMG_1872.jpg Goldcorp Photos 14 May 2016: San Miguel Ixtahuacán, San Marcos Meeting with family of Jaime Otero López Pérez after his death in an tunnel collapse at Goldcorp's Marlin mine the previous month Photo: Catherine Nolin https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60ad5f9747592c2e0dfcf935/def5d02b-b65c-4593-b0ff-f7818d6d8ba9/IMG_0722.jpg Goldcorp Photos 21 May 2017 San Miguel Ixtahuacán, San Marcos Diodora Hernández on her land which she refused to sell to Goldcorp/Montana Exploradora over the years. She has paid dearly for her principled stand. Photo: Catherine Nolin https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60ad5f9747592c2e0dfcf935/cae1224c-9ff6-4ff9-8854-63135aa70b86/IMG_0678.jpg Goldcorp Photos 21 May 2017 Sipacapa, San Marcos Alfredo Jacinto López (with the Consejo Maya Sipakapense). Our #CDNMiningImpunity Emergency Delegation (Grahame Russell, Nathan Einbinder, Rob Mercatante, Sandra Cuffe, Cara-Lee Malange, and Catherine Nolin) met with Alfredo and colleagues after his recent & terrorizing illegal detention for his community defence work, in resistance to Canadian-owned Goldcorp and their Marlin Mine. Photo: Catherine Nolin https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60ad5f9747592c2e0dfcf935/111ab352-1422-48ba-b242-80bb60138315/2018-05-09+12.33.17.jpg Goldcorp Photos 9 May 2018 Salitre, San Marcos Aniseto López Díaz, Maya Mam farmer & leader of community movements resisting and denouncing harms and violations caused by Goldcorp Inc.’s Marlin mine in western Guatemala. He has suffered attacks, criminalizations and threats, for his community defense work - with Grahame Russell and UNBC Delegation/Field School Photo: Catherine Nolin https://www.testimoniothebook.org/solidarity-orgs-work daily 0.75 2025-05-14 https://www.testimoniothebook.org/contributors daily 0.75 2025-05-14 https://www.testimoniothebook.org/tahoe-photos daily 0.75 2023-03-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60ad5f9747592c2e0dfcf935/531ea996-63f8-46bd-b946-b3e8576b6456/GUATE++2012+DAY+07+%26+08+139.JPG Tahoe Photoes 1 June 2012 San Rafael de las Flores, Santa Rosa, Guatemala And the mining issue grows, expands, morphs ... here we are meeting with the local activist priest Father Nestor and the Committee in Defense of Life at the church where Tahoe Resources (a child of Vancouver-based Goldcorp) is starting the Mina San Rafael mining operation Photo: Catherine Nolin https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60ad5f9747592c2e0dfcf935/531ea996-63f8-46bd-b946-b3e8576b6456/GUATE++2012+DAY+07+%26+08+139.JPG Tahoe Photoes 1 June 2012 San Rafael de las Flores, Santa Rosa, Guatemala And the mining issue grows, expands, morphs ... here we are meeting with the local activist priest Father Nestor and the Committee in Defense of Life at the church where Tahoe Resources (a child of Vancouver-based Goldcorp) is starting the Mina San Rafael mining operation Photo: Catherine Nolin https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60ad5f9747592c2e0dfcf935/17a96cc4-733b-4500-85b3-b71da089021d/GUATE++2012+DAY+07+%26+08+140.JPG Tahoe Photoes 1 June 2012 San Rafael de las Flores, Santa Rosa, Guatemala Padre Nestor (in navy blue shirt), by raising his voice of concern, had a case brought against him for speaking about the need for a consulta/community consultation at mass, saying he is against development, progress business, etc. Sound familiar? Photo: Catherine Nolin https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60ad5f9747592c2e0dfcf935/0fbe9848-62c2-44d5-9f54-3db72460b3bf/GUATE++2012+DAY+07+%26+08+141.JPG Tahoe Photoes 1 June 2012 San Rafael de las Flores, Santa Rosa, Guatemala These brave men with the Committee in Defense of Life argue that they can't be called "anti-mining" since they don't know a thing about mining. They said that "our struggle is just. Our resources are our own." They recounted the many ways in which they are being criminalized for this just work. Indirect death threats, phone calls to family, criminal charges pending .... And for the charges to be dropped, these men had to agree not to be in groups of 10 or more. So, they looked around and said our meeting violated that stipulation. Photo: Catherine Nolin https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60ad5f9747592c2e0dfcf935/073b6b4d-3ce5-4d22-9f05-032193e29aa9/IMG_9365.jpg Tahoe Photoes 13 May 2014 COCODE members in turn shared their thoughts about their opposition to the Escobal mine. Maria in blue said " We live in paradise here and we know it and we want to protect it. What else do they bring [besides some jobs]? Who knows, we may end up killing each other. There are people on this earth who love the earth and people who love money." Photo: Catherine Nolin https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60ad5f9747592c2e0dfcf935/073b6b4d-3ce5-4d22-9f05-032193e29aa9/IMG_9365.jpg Tahoe Photoes 13 May 2014 COCODE members in turn shared their thoughts about their opposition to the Escobal mine. Maria in blue said " We live in paradise here and we know it and we want to protect it. What else do they bring [besides some jobs]? Who knows, we may end up killing each other. There are people on this earth who love the earth and people who love money." Photo: Catherine Nolin https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60ad5f9747592c2e0dfcf935/f65a2ee6-ef8d-4462-9312-1bbe5a79e506/IMG_9362.jpg Tahoe Photoes 13 May 2014 San Juan Bosco carried out a consulta "community consultation of good faith" on 17 February 2013, just a month before the Guatemalan government ordered a state of siege and suspended a range of of rights (right of association, for example) and sent in the security forces to intimidate, capture, and imprison people opposed to the mine. 99% voted against mining. Photo: Catherine Nolin https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60ad5f9747592c2e0dfcf935/f65a2ee6-ef8d-4462-9312-1bbe5a79e506/IMG_9362.jpg Tahoe Photoes 13 May 2014 San Juan Bosco carried out a consulta "community consultation of good faith" on 17 February 2013, just a month before the Guatemalan government ordered a state of siege and suspended a range of of rights (right of association, for example) and sent in the security forces to intimidate, capture, and imprison people opposed to the mine. 99% voted against mining. Photo: Catherine Nolin https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60ad5f9747592c2e0dfcf935/9e226a52-aa04-41e1-8512-18115e8f5538/IMG_9332+SFL+1+compress.jpeg Tahoe Photoes 13 May 2014 San Rafael Las Flores, El Escobal mine Private landowners adjacent to the Tahoe Resource's mine are sympathetic to the concerns of Oscar Morales (white shirt, middle) and others opposing this form of "development." They let us come on their property to view the mine site from their farm. Oscar Morales is clear in his statement that "Tahoe Resources does NOT have a social license here." Photo: Catherine Nolin https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60ad5f9747592c2e0dfcf935/08f1af93-3fd3-4456-995a-963a1ff90197/IMG_9350+%281%29.jpg Tahoe Photoes 13 May 2014 San Rafael las Flores, El Escobal Mine GOLDCORP MAKES US SICK! Merle (second from right) brought this banner from the Mining Injustice Network in Toronto. This is the Canadian-owned Tahoe Resources El Escobal mine but Tahoe is a 'child' of Goldcorp (former CEO of Goldcorp Kevin McArthur stepped down from Goldcorp and started Tahoe - of which Goldcorp owns some 40% of the shares). Photo: Catherine Nolin https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60ad5f9747592c2e0dfcf935/08f1af93-3fd3-4456-995a-963a1ff90197/IMG_9350+%281%29.jpg Tahoe Photoes 13 May 2014 San Rafael las Flores, El Escobal Mine GOLDCORP MAKES US SICK! Merle (second from right) brought this banner from the Mining Injustice Network in Toronto. This is the Canadian-owned Tahoe Resources El Escobal mine but Tahoe is a 'child' of Goldcorp (former CEO of Goldcorp Kevin McArthur stepped down from Goldcorp and started Tahoe - of which Goldcorp owns some 40% of the shares). Photo: Catherine Nolin https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60ad5f9747592c2e0dfcf935/94223341-872a-423d-906b-fc6b9f3d6629/IMG_9358.jpg Tahoe Photoes 13 May 2014 San Juan Bosco, near Tahoe Resources' El Escobal silver mine Oscar Morales requested that we visit with the local COCODE (community development association) of San Juan Bosco which is situated in a ridge above the Tahoe Resources’ Escobal mine site (about 12 km from the silver mine). Goldcorp had concessions for this territory and two adjacent communities (Scorpion & Andres) and it is now in the hands of Tahoe Resources. Photo: Catherine Nolin https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60ad5f9747592c2e0dfcf935/b8511fb3-af81-4c9f-a521-cf6c6603555c/O11A0127_fx.jpg Tahoe Photoes 22 May 2016 La Cuchilla, San Rafael Las Flores, Santa Rosa Tahoe Resources' Escobal Mine: Homes devastated by underground explosions and mining operations Photo by James Rodríguez, MiMundo.org https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60ad5f9747592c2e0dfcf935/b8511fb3-af81-4c9f-a521-cf6c6603555c/O11A0127_fx.jpg Tahoe Photoes 22 May 2016 La Cuchilla, San Rafael Las Flores, Santa Rosa Tahoe Resources' Escobal Mine: (L-R) Homes devastated by mining operations Photo by James Rodríguez, MiMundo.org https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60ad5f9747592c2e0dfcf935/c5a62a19-5a97-4077-9ad0-7d9d9c22bf0e/IMG_4409.JPG Tahoe Photoes 22 May 2016 La Cuchilla, San Rafael Las Flores, Santa Rosa Tahoe Resources' Escobal Mine: (L-R) Jackie McVicar, Steven Schnoor, Oscar Morales, and Grahame Russell overlooking the tunnel entrance from the community of La Cuchilla Photo by Catherine Nolin https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60ad5f9747592c2e0dfcf935/bfb792fc-582e-43e8-a2b2-43d917c67b9a/O11A0079_fx.jpg Tahoe Photoes 22 May 2016 La Cuchilla, San Rafael Las Flores, Santa Rosa Tahoe Resources' Escobal Mine: (L-R) Steven Schnoor, Catherine Nolin, Grahame Russell, Cole Chapman overlooking the tunnel entrance from the community of La Cuchilla Photo by James Rodríguez, MiMundo.org https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60ad5f9747592c2e0dfcf935/bfb792fc-582e-43e8-a2b2-43d917c67b9a/O11A0079_fx.jpg Tahoe Photoes 22 May 2016 La Cuchilla, San Rafael Las Flores, Santa Rosa Tahoe Resources' Escobal Mine: (L-R) Steven Schnoor, Catherine Nolin, Grahame Russell, Cole Chapman overlooking the tunnel entrance from the community of La Cuchilla Photo by James Rodríguez, MiMundo.org https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60ad5f9747592c2e0dfcf935/c768e741-77a4-46cc-986b-8f7d32402984/17-06.Tahoe.Plaintiffs.jpg Tahoe Photoes https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60ad5f9747592c2e0dfcf935/0b61fd27-c697-4c6f-9715-a3d9c99e616f/17-12-27.Tahoe.LuisGarcia.LAT.jpg Tahoe Photoes 'If we're attacked, we'll die together,' a 16-year-old anti-mining activist told her family. But when the bullets came, they killed only her By Kate Linthicum, Los Angeles Times, Dec.27, 2017, http://www.latimes.com/world/la-fg-environmental-activists-guatemala-20171227-htmlstory.html https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60ad5f9747592c2e0dfcf935/0b61fd27-c697-4c6f-9715-a3d9c99e616f/17-12-27.Tahoe.LuisGarcia.LAT.jpg Tahoe Photoes https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60ad5f9747592c2e0dfcf935/d89664b2-518a-4e92-8e67-37e004a8cb75/16-05-22.Tahoe.LaCuchilla.JPG Tahoe Photoes Cracks and fissures opened under the homes and village of La Cuchilla, due to use of explosives underground in Tahoe's extensive tunneling system. Photo: CODIDENA https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60ad5f9747592c2e0dfcf935/d89664b2-518a-4e92-8e67-37e004a8cb75/16-05-22.Tahoe.LaCuchilla.JPG Tahoe Photoes https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60ad5f9747592c2e0dfcf935/67db16a1-3760-4e32-9082-5f75ade857c8/UNADJUSTEDNONRAW_thumb_196f.jpg Tahoe Photoes 5 May 2018 Casillas, Santa Rosa, Guatemala The Permanent Peaceful Resistance / Roadblock that has refused to let any mining-related vehicles or equipment through for several months Photo: Catherine Nolin https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60ad5f9747592c2e0dfcf935/67db16a1-3760-4e32-9082-5f75ade857c8/UNADJUSTEDNONRAW_thumb_196f.jpg Tahoe Photoes 5 May 2018 Casillas, Santa Rosa, Guatemala The Permanent Peaceful Resistance / Roadblock that has refused to let any mining-related vehicles or equipment through for several months Photo: Catherine Nolin https://www.testimoniothebook.org/upcoming-events daily 0.75 2022-09-07 https://www.testimoniothebook.org/la-puya-photos daily 0.75 2023-03-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60ad5f9747592c2e0dfcf935/94460487-7378-47df-af8b-420147fceec2/GUATE+2012+DAY+02+015.JPG La Puya Photos 26 May 2012 La Puya Resistance, early days Drove outside Guatemala City to the roadway between the communities of San José del Golfo & San Pedro Ayampuc to meet with community members peacefully blocking the road into the Radius Gold mine adjacent to their towns. Radius is Vancouver-based and is facing amazing resistance for lack of proper consultation, bringing in the police a couple of weeks ago to scare them, and basically being bad corporate citizens. Photo: Catherine Nolin https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60ad5f9747592c2e0dfcf935/e374ed45-7055-4c64-b408-18fc61f363ee/GUATE+2012+DAY+02+044.JPG La Puya Photos 26 May 2012 La Puya Resistance - San José del Golfo / San Pedro Ayampuc Community blockade at the entrance of Radius gold mine near San José del Golfo. The community members greeted us warmly and of course clarified that that is a peaceful protest and is a struggle for LIFE. Photo: Catherine Nolin https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60ad5f9747592c2e0dfcf935/59a896a4-6f62-4e99-9168-54d60b1bfb19/GUATE+2012+DAY+02+068.JPG La Puya Photos 26 May 2012 La Puya Resistance, San José del Golfo / San Pedro Ayampuc Strong women leaders, including Yolanda Oqueli (right), spoke of wanting us to feel welcomed by open arms, open to us as human beings, not as Canadians. Two weeks later, Yolanda Oqueli was shot and barely survived an assassination attempt. Photo: Catherine Nolin https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60ad5f9747592c2e0dfcf935/3846eea3-3fd4-4e81-9d8d-32d077e0710b/IMG_0239.jpg La Puya Photos 26 May 2012 La Puya Resistance, San José del Golfo / San Pedro Ayampuc Angelina Noj, from San Pedro Ayampuc, holds her son Esmit in front of the blocked entrance gate to the Tambor mine. The sign reads: Life is worth more than gold. No to mining. The mine, known as Progreso 7 Derivada, belongs to Exploraciones Mineras de Guatemala, S.A. (EXMINGUA), local subsidiary of Canadian company Radius Gold Inc. Photo: James Rodríguez https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60ad5f9747592c2e0dfcf935/69beecfb-636e-45cf-85ae-6742c3c2e61c/IMG_0236.jpg La Puya Photos 26 May 2012 La Puya Resistance, San José del Golfo / San Pedro Ayampuc Fellow community member Milton Carrera spent 20 years in Canada and just returned to San José del Golfo about a year ago. He said the main problem is that water is scarce. He recounted the lies, intimidations, attempts to buy their dignity ... and then 8 May 2012 400 Guatemalan national police arrived at 1:00am in an attempt to bring in 28 dump trucks for the company. Photo: James Rodríguez https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60ad5f9747592c2e0dfcf935/7f0994ee-dea4-4cf0-ab86-e78830c63c39/IMG_0102.jpg La Puya Photos 26 May 2012 La Puya Resistance, San José del Golfo / San Pedro Ayampuc One of the community spokespersons - Antonio “Tono” Reyes - describes this as a struggle for LIFE. He said to us - 'don't be ashamed to be Canadians. There are bad people in Canada just as there are bad people in Guatemala.' They don't blame us for what Radius Gold is doing to their families. He said we must work together as humans. Photo: James Rodríguez https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60ad5f9747592c2e0dfcf935/9c41459d-22bf-440c-a70f-d8afa1082177/IMG_0328.jpg La Puya Photos 26 May 2012 La Puya Resistance, San José del Golfo / San Pedro Ayampuc Strong women leaders spoke of wanting us to feel welcomed by open arms, open to us as human beings, not as Canadians. Photo: James Rodríguez https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60ad5f9747592c2e0dfcf935/d38b4ab4-f6b7-4f4f-8d09-6f06ec600668/IMG_0351.jpg La Puya Photos 26 May 2012 La Puya Resistance, San José del Golfo / San Pedro Ayampuc The community members in resistance who have come together to form the so-called North Metropolitan Peoples in Resistance Front (FRENAM), FRENAM members prepare tortillas in order to feed those protesters who will spend the night under the temporary shacks outside the entrance gate to the Tambor gold mine. “The Grandmother” serves dinner plates made up of rice, black beans and corn tortillas. Photo: James Rodríguez https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60ad5f9747592c2e0dfcf935/095e9b7a-4db0-4030-86cb-77bdcfddd346/IMG_9412+LaPuya.jpg La Puya Photos 14 May 2014 La Puya Resistance Camp UNBC Geography + Rights Action delegation at the La Puya Resistance camp Photo: Catherine Nolin https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60ad5f9747592c2e0dfcf935/2adf7491-e775-4289-a73d-e74ce7effb01/IMG_0593.JPG La Puya Photos 17 May 2017 La Puya community resistance (Radius Gold/KCA gold mine) Interviewing Alvaro Sandoval about the La Puya resistance, ongoing since March 2012. Photo: Catherine Nolin https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60ad5f9747592c2e0dfcf935/9131ad7a-56ce-43a5-8bea-395f4a202e24/IMG_0586.jpg La Puya Photos 17 May 2017 La Puya Resistance Todos Somos La Puya popular art in La Puya Photo: Catherine Nolin https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60ad5f9747592c2e0dfcf935/421ebc33-df5c-4803-a7aa-d685c76aeba1/IMG_9399.jpg La Puya Photos 14 May 2014 La Puya Resistance, San José del Golfo / San Pedro Ayampuc Delegation meeting with Alvaro Sandoval and fellow community members in resistance to the Radius Gold/KCA mining project. Photo: Catherine Nolin https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60ad5f9747592c2e0dfcf935/660b4cb7-6647-456d-8754-b71573d0b7cb/Alert%233_002.jpg La Puya Photos 16 May 2016 Guatemala City The La Sala de Vistas courtroom of the Guatemalan Supreme Court of Justice Daniel W. Kappes (right), President of Nevada-­‐based mining firm KCA, attended the hearing. Mr. Kappes, who refused to give his name, directed journalists to defense lawyer Estuardo Ralón. When asked to confirm Mr. Kappes’ identity, Mr. Ralón stated: "Since there is so much insecurity in the country, it is best to keep this gentleman's identity anonymous. But yes, he is a major investor in KCA." Photo: James Rodriguez / MiMundo.org https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60ad5f9747592c2e0dfcf935/03dab38d-79a7-42ef-a13c-6905e5b7c05e/UNADJUSTEDNONRAW_thumb_1893.jpg La Puya Photos 17 May 2018 La Puya Resistance Grahame Russell with Alvaro Sandoval Photo: Catherine Nolin https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60ad5f9747592c2e0dfcf935/5aa999ab-565d-4d93-bbb7-e67f73453a6b/Alert%233_001.jpg La Puya Photos 16 May 2016 Guatemala City The La Sala de Vistas courtroom of the Guatemalan Supreme Court of Justice CALAS lawyer Rafael Maldonado argues for the plaintiffs -­‐ communities of San Pedro Ayampuc and San José del Golfo -­‐ during the hearing. Guatemala City, Guatemala. May 16, 2016. Photo: James Rodríguez / MiMundo.org https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60ad5f9747592c2e0dfcf935/0dd319d5-a3c6-45c5-8ec5-6ff163bf931c/Alert%233_004.jpg La Puya Photos 16 May 2016 La Puya Amalia Sandoval Palencia WATCH: After offering us coffee, rice and beans prepared in the La Puya kitchen, we asked Amalia Sandoval Palencia (a mother of four from San José del Golfo): 'As you know, KCA is a U.S. company and Radius Gold is a Canadian company. What might you like to say to North Americans? Amalia responds to our question: (2 minute clip): https://youtu.be/04gvXk2P09A Photo: James Rodríguez https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60ad5f9747592c2e0dfcf935/a714b0bf-ffdc-4025-a350-1f01ec10c5fc/F9FA646B-1F5C-402A-9D4D-981877EDEF92_1_105_c.jpeg La Puya Photos 16 May 2016 Guatemala City Lawyer Rafael Maldonado in La Sala de Vistas courtroom of the Guatemalan Supreme Court of Justice Catherine Nolin & James Rodríguez attended a hearing in which lawyers with the Centre for Legal, Environmental and Social Action (CALAS), on behalf of the mining-affected communities, petitioned for the final, definitive suspension of the mining license for the El Tambor mine (Progreso VII Derivada) owned by American-­based Kappes, Cassiday & Associates (KCA), previously owned by Radius Gold. Photo: Catherine Nolin https://www.testimoniothebook.org/el-estor-photos daily 0.75 2023-03-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60ad5f9747592c2e0dfcf935/12ed8eef-0925-436f-85d4-b7d22d1eac4a/ANNIKA_35+Chichipate+Meeting.jpg El Estor Photos 17 May 2004 Chichipate, El Estor, Izabal, Guatemala In 1981, Pablo Bac, a Q'eqchi' man from Chichipate was disappeared and killed while defending the rights and well-being of the Q'eqchi' people, while they resisted forced evictions by the EXMIBAL nickel mining company, subsidiary of Canadian nickel mining giant INCO. Meeting with Chichipate community members concerned that the EXMIBAL may start up the mine again. Photo: Annika Gerlach https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60ad5f9747592c2e0dfcf935/ce1a1b60-1667-40cd-9ddc-a641fea73e7c/ANNIKA_36+Chichipate+Meeting+Elder.jpg El Estor Photos 17 May 2004 Chichipate, El Estor, Izabal, Guatemala Meeting with Pablo Bac's father, survivor of the kidnapping of his son in 1981. Photo: Annika Gerlach https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60ad5f9747592c2e0dfcf935/50add5cf-09ac-48f5-bd71-395b37e4d387/Fieldschool+2010+poster.jpg El Estor Photos 7 May 2008 Road from Chichipate to Lote 8 and Lote 9 Another 'new' settlement springs up on land that Skye Resources says is their own. Lote 9 is another community, set beside Lote 8 in the mountains, in resistance to Vancouver-based Skye Resources/CGN mining activity Photo: Catherine Nolin https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60ad5f9747592c2e0dfcf935/12255495-e28c-4146-8b4a-8fa01a91cce2/P5190764.JPG El Estor Photos 19 May 2010 Lote Ocho Gathering testimonies of violent evictions, rape, burning of homes in community of Lote 8, on land claimed by Skye Resources / HudBay Minerals. Photo by C. Nolin https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60ad5f9747592c2e0dfcf935/d02c7d07-4051-462d-b339-420214b93ec7/IMG_0607.jpg El Estor Photos 19 May 2010 Lote 8 The first woman to stand (in blue) came forward and said "I am scared." After hearing that, one by one, several more women came forward with her to recount the gang rape, loss of pregnancies and death of a young child during the violent evictions. None of us were ready for this. How could we be? The women have not spoken in public of these rapes before -- the trauma of remembering what happened lead to many having headaches and body aches just as if it all happened yesterday. Photo: Catherine Nolin https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60ad5f9747592c2e0dfcf935/5119d0af-55fa-4b95-b984-ac8fa0a35fd0/IMG_1789.JPG El Estor Photos 22 August 2010 Barrio La Unión, El Estor, Guatemala Grahame Russell, JP LaPlante & Catherine Nolin (among others) returned to El Estor after the May 2010 delegation to re-visit the mining affected communities near the HudBay Minerals / CGN Fénix mine Photo: Claudette Bois https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60ad5f9747592c2e0dfcf935/b3a999c2-b6e8-4d19-8ed9-a4d24c189874/elestor-testimonies-group-2.jpg El Estor Photos 24 August 2010 El Estor, Izabal, Guatemala From: mimundo.org Portrait of the women from Lote 8 community in El Estor, Guatemala, who were gang raped by CGN mine security personnel, police and military during the forced evictions of families from the community on January 27, 2007. Since, Rosa Elbira Ich Choc, Margarita Caal Caal and nine other women from the community of Lote Ocho have brought a landmark lawsuit in Canada against Canadian company HMI Nickel (formerly Skye Resources) as well as its current corporate owner, HudBay Minerals. The forced eviction was sought by Canadian mining company Skye Resources with regards to their Fenix Nickel Mining Project. Photo: James Rodríguez https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60ad5f9747592c2e0dfcf935/ff575186-6472-483c-b1fc-7f3e901d0c2f/GUATE++2012+DAY+07+%26+08+088.JPG El Estor Photos 31 May 2012 Lote 8 Emilio Xoc, 53, recounts: Difficult for us "how CGN [the Guatemalan subsidiary of HudBay Minerals] is mad because we are telling the truth. We know some of you have returned several times. Thank you. I remember well." Then Emilio broke down and cried. He gathered himself and then said, "We don't know how long this will go on. How long it will last." Photo: Catherine Nolin https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60ad5f9747592c2e0dfcf935/16c7c92d-5c1d-49c3-9ea8-f9c0501a4229/GUATE++2012+DAY+07+%26+08+119.JPG El Estor Photos 31 May 2012 El Estor Community leader Angelica Choc, widow of Adolfo Ich Chaman - who was murdered on the HudBay company property in September 2009. She lives in the community of La Uníon & is a strong community leader. Strong, brave woman. For info on the lawsuit, see: http://www.chocversushudbay.com/about https://rightsaction.org/hudbay-minerals-archives Photo: Catherine Nolin https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60ad5f9747592c2e0dfcf935/9b0680a7-7f74-4d0c-8f7b-ec1c9c2ee81e/2014+UNBC-RA+Ramiro+02.jpg El Estor Photos 18 May 2014 Hiking into Lote 8 with Maria Cuc Choc, sister of Angelica Choc, sister-in-law of the murdered Adolfo Ich. Photo: Catherine Nolin https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60ad5f9747592c2e0dfcf935/9bc9f985-4bf1-477f-807f-786338fad215/IMG_0564.JPG El Estor Photos 16 May 2017 La Unión, El Estor, Izabal Maria Choc sharing testimonio for inclusion in the book, with James Rodríguez and Grahame Russell Photo: Catherine Nolin https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60ad5f9747592c2e0dfcf935/afea425b-f773-45ba-9924-94b6282819f9/2018+Cahaboncito_Robin.png El Estor Photos 18 May 2018 Cahaboncito, Alta Verapaz, Guatemala Greetings in Cahaboncito - Grahame & Catherine met by the women and men of Lote 8 Photo from "The Faces & Micro-Geographies of Resistance’" by Robin McKinley https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60ad5f9747592c2e0dfcf935/ce980096-9213-466f-a04f-896ca200255c/IMG_2994.JPG El Estor Photos 9 January 2020 El Estor, Izabal, Guatemala Grahame Russell and Catherine Nolin return to El Estor (with Brian Gorlick) to meet with the strong and courageous women and men of Lote 8 and La Unión. This photo of the mine demonstrates that the mining operation suspension, as ordered by the Constitutional Court, hasn’t been respected by Solway Investment Group or enforced by the Guatemala government. Photo: Brian Gorlick https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60ad5f9747592c2e0dfcf935/a3d7bb87-f326-4582-b600-db6d7d48a64d/CANON+124.jpg El Estor Photos 7 May 2008 - Barrio Revolución, El Estor, Izabal, Guatemala Barrio Revolución, a community of approximately 90 families, rebuilding after Skye Resources/CGN burned down their community in late 2006 Photo: JP Laplante https://www.testimoniothebook.org/book-photos daily 0.75 2021-10-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60ad5f9747592c2e0dfcf935/b1c49a91-ed27-4851-bcbf-bf6940b2dd84/01.01.Guatemala-map.png Book Photos FIGURE 1: Guatemala, 4 Main Mining-Related Community Defense Struggles. Produced by Kyle Kusch, 2019 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60ad5f9747592c2e0dfcf935/b2cf9a99-a1c5-4f55-81ae-eaeb12919c03/02.02.Sebastian.jpg Book Photos Figure 2. Río Negro Massacres and the Chixoy Dam. Massacre survivor Sebastian Iboy Osorio explains to a delegation the repressive events that took place on that spot known as the Conacaste Tree on March 13, 1982. Río Negro, Rabinal, Baja Verapaz, Guatemala. May 17, 2014. Photo: James Rodríguez. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60ad5f9747592c2e0dfcf935/1c7a1aa2-8469-4302-95a0-cccfa40e08e4/02.01.creompaz.jpg Book Photos Figure 3. CREOMPAZ, Exhumation in Cobán’s former military base. Mass grave number sixteen inside the Guatemalan military base known as CREOMPAZ (UN’s Regional Centre for Training in Peacekeeping), formerly known as Military Zone 21, reveals dozens of bound, tied, and blindfolded human remains. The exhumation, which took place during 2012 and was carried out by the Forensic Anthropology Foundation of Guatemala (FAFG), rendered the human remains of 533 people, dozens of whom were women and children. Cobán, Alta Verapaz, Guatemala. May 29, 2012. Photo: James Rodríguez https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60ad5f9747592c2e0dfcf935/95e3ab0a-3a20-4258-a9e8-701c5102f8a4/03.01.eviction.jpg Book Photos Figure 4. Eviction of Barrio La Revolución. Hired men from the nearby community of Mariscos burn homes at Barrio La Revolución. On January 7, 8, and 9, 2007, the Guatemalan Nickel Company, local subsidiary of Canadian Skye Resources, ordered the forced eviction of five Maya Q’eqchi’ communities around Lake Izabal in both El Estor and Panzós. Over eight hundred State security forces carried out the forced eviction, destroying and even burning many huts in the Indigenous communities who claim the territory as ancestral land. Barrio La Revolución, Chichipate, El Estor, Izabal, Guatemala. January 9, 2007. Photo: James Rodríguez https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60ad5f9747592c2e0dfcf935/b84c76ae-edda-4adb-9bff-976c46936f53/03.02.sanrafaelmine.jpg Book Photos Figure 5. San Rafael Mine Signing. Then-Mining and Energy Minister Erick Archila (left) whispers to then-President Otto Pérez Molina during the signing of the official agreement between the Guatemalan government and Tahoe Resources and Goldcorp’s El Escobal silver project via its local subsidiary Minera San Rafael. The signing came two days after six local men were shot by the company’s security guards. Guatemala City, Guatemala, April 29, 2013. Photo: James Rodríguez https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60ad5f9747592c2e0dfcf935/ca32cf67-2fa1-4ab5-95d7-aac37778981d/04.01.protest.jpg Book Photos Figure 6. Protest During 2007 Goldcorp AGM. People protesting Goldcorp’s mining-linked violence and harms in Guatemala and Honduras gather outside the offices where Goldcorp’s annual general meeting is taking place with a sign that reads: “Goldcorp: No more mining terrorism!” Vancouver, Canada, May 2, 2007. Photo: James Rodríguez https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60ad5f9747592c2e0dfcf935/09e3284c-6a79-4cea-ba3a-0e684c629fd2/04.02.Diodora.jpg Book Photos Figure 7. Goldcorp’s Marlin Mine in San Marcos, Diodora. Diodora Hernández looks for a calf while shepherding her cows. On July 7, 2010, Diodora Hernández, who refused to sell her land, was shot point-blank in the face outside her home only a few metres from a fence that delimits Goldcorp’s Marlin mine. She asserts her refusal to sell is the reason she suffered the assassination attempt. The operations of Goldcorp’s Marlin gold mine in Guatemala’s western highlands have caused serious internal conflicts within the local Maya Mam communities, as well as causing repression, trumped-up legal charges against community defenders, and widespread environmental and health problems. San José Nueva Esperanza, San Miguel Ixtahuacán, San Marcos, Guatemala, May 14, 2016. Photo: James Rodríguez. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60ad5f9747592c2e0dfcf935/fbb329c0-1d59-4fbe-9522-9316fcc6870d/05.01.complaint.jpg Book Photos Figure 8. Formal Human Rights Violation Complaint submitted to the Canadian Government by Catherine Nolin, Grahame Russell, and UNBC Field School participants, 2010. Photo: Catherine Nolin https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60ad5f9747592c2e0dfcf935/099279d6-a380-4f92-8211-5158f4f1fa2b/05.02.defensora.jpg Book Photos Figure 9. Defensora Documentary Film Poster (2013). Defensora is a moving and powerful documentary that sets out the context and backdrop to the precedentsetting Hudbay Minerals lawsuits. Filmmaker Rachel Schmidt completed Defensora just after the landmark decision of Superior Court of Ontario Justice Carole Brown, who ruled in July 2013 that Hudbay can be put on trial in Canada for gang rapes, a shooting-maiming, and a murder that Hudbay is allegedly responsible for in relation to their mining project in Guatemala. Photo Rachel Schmidt, director, Defensora Final HD (6kidsProductions, 2013, vimeo.com/329494479) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60ad5f9747592c2e0dfcf935/db511f25-8055-4639-8953-bd1942ecc93a/2017+PAINTING+The+Giants+of+Lote+8.jpg Book Photos Figure 10 13 Brave Giants versus Hudbay Minerals, painting by Pati Flores. Patricia (Pati) Flores’ painting represents the thirteen Indigenous Maya Q’eqchi’ plaintiffs from Guatemala and their case against Hudbay Minerals. Used by permission https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60ad5f9747592c2e0dfcf935/86b896b4-540e-4964-bbbb-44de355a032e/06.02.sanrafaelsiege.jpg Book Photos Figure 11. San Rafael State of Siege. Checkpoint between San Rafael Las Flores and Mataquescuintla during the first day of the Guatemalan government’s declared State of Siege in four municipalities in support of the mining operation of Vancouver-based Tahoe Resources. Numerous constitutional rights were suspended for thirty days. Mataquescuintla, Jalapa, Guatemala, May 2, 2013. Photo: James Rodríguez. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60ad5f9747592c2e0dfcf935/ac4d66ff-9a84-40d9-90bf-c36f03afec76/06.01.lapuya.jpg Book Photos Figure 12. La Puya Resistance against Unwanted Gold Mine. Community defenders block the entrance gate to El Tambor gold mine, owned by EXMINGUA, local subsidiary of Canadian mining company Radius Gold (later of American company KCA). Since March 2, 2012, local neighbours from San José del Golfo and San Pedro Ayampuc have blocked the entrance to the proposed mining site. Residents from the communities assert the industrial activity in their territories is illegal since they were not appropriately consulted before the mine began operating. La Puya, San Pedro Ayampuc, Guatemala, July 19, 2012. Photo: James Rodríguez. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60ad5f9747592c2e0dfcf935/0c28c427-f5d2-4de1-83cd-a9abcb4f1fcc/07.03consultation.jpg Book Photos Figure 13. Consultation in Santa Cruz Quiché. Residents of Cantón Pajajxit I, II, and III vote during the community consultation on the exploitation of natural resources. On a historic day, residents from the municipality of Santa Cruz del Quiché—one of Guatemala’s most important hubs and the birthplace of the Maya K’iche’ people—unanimously rejected the exploitation of natural goods and resources, in particular through mining and hydroelectric activities. Santa Cruz, Quiché, Guatemala, October 22, 2010. Photo: James Rodríguez. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60ad5f9747592c2e0dfcf935/32379dca-0048-4685-bd45-d8009b5c902b/07.01.mapmineralinterests.jpg Book Photos Figure 14. Mineral Interests and Consultas in Guatemala, by Patricia Rojas, illustrates the extent of the consultas across Guatemala, and their proximity to communities rejecting particular industrial projects. Source: J. P. Laplante, “‘La Voz del Pueblo,’” 205. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60ad5f9747592c2e0dfcf935/87fcaf75-31e4-4bb8-b5f3-d63bb36df981/07.02mappopularparticipation.jpg Book Photos Figure 15. Popular Participation in Consultas in Guatemala, 2005–2013, by Patricia Rojas, illustrates the extent of the consultas across Guatemala, and the percentage of municipal participation in seventy-six consultas between 2005 and 2013. Source: Laplante, “‘La Voz del Pueblo,’” 203. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60ad5f9747592c2e0dfcf935/ed9cac7c-4d09-41eb-b19a-fea0aa87b6df/07.04miningconflictivity.jpg Book Photos Figure 16. Mining Conflictivity: CGN and Lote Ocho. From left to right: Carmelina Caal Ical, Margarita Caal Caal, Rosa Elbira Coc Ich, Amalia Cac Tiul, Lucia Caal Chun, and Olivia Asig Xol, all six women plaintiffs in the Caal vs. Hudbay legal case in Canada, here in their community of Lote Ocho. Lote Ocho, El Estor, Izabal, Guatemala, September 29, 2014. Photo: James Rodríguez. https://www.testimoniothebook.org/rights-action daily 0.75 2025-05-14