New El Salvadoran government inherits lawsuit for refusing Canadian-owned...
Even before former guerrilla commander Salvador Sánchez Cerén is inaugurated as President of El Salvador, his administration is saddled with an unnecessary $301-million liability -- a lawsuit over El...
View Article'I meant to do that': Local community shuts down Goldcorp's Los Filos mine,...
Goldcorp's announcement Wednesday that it is suspending operations at its Los Filos mine is a belated and misleading admission.It is true that work at the mine in Guerrero, Mexico stopped -- early...
View ArticleEjido Carrizalillo denounces insults and rejects Goldcorp's austerity offer...
The Ejido Carrizalillo in Guerrero, Mexico announced an indefinite shut down of Goldcorp's Los Filos mine operations on the morning of Tuesday, April 1st, 2014 after talks broke down over renewal of...
View ArticleGuilty: Tribunal finds that Canadian state shares responsibility for mining...
By act and by omission, the Canadian state has been found guilty for its role in human rights violations in Latin America as a result of its efforts to spur, sponsor and protect Canadian mining...
View ArticleGuatemalan government moves to expel witnesses to police violence at...
Last week, Guatemalan authorities informed two Peace Brigades International (PBI) volunteers that their temporary residence permits were cancelled and that they have ten days to leave the country. Both...
View ArticleNo Small Coup: The Canada-Honduras Free Trade Agreement
There was no doubt that the Canada-Honduras Free Trade Agreement would be rushed through the Senate and receive Royal Assent before parliament recessed in June. Five years ago, however -- before...
View ArticleA cheat sheet for Kevin McArthur on Tahoe Resources' tactics to silence...
Mr. Kevin McArthur, the CEO of Tahoe Resources who came out of retirement after leaving Goldcorp in 2008 to develop the Escobal silver mine in southeastern Guatemala, has been summoned by a District...
View Article'Cracks' in Canadian policy for overseas mining, evidence of an abyss
"Despite Canada's assurances that there is good policy, we continue at the commission to see a number of very, very serious human rights violations occurring in the region," said Commissioner...
View ArticleDo no harm, Canada
The Inter American Human Rights Commission -- an independent office of the Organization of American States -- has added its voice to a growing list of human rights bodies calling on Canada to prevent...
View ArticleJosé Tendetza's murder is more blood on Canada's hands
José Tendetza should have been in Lima, Peru last week at the climate change talks as one of the powerful Indigenous voices speaking about the destruction that the mining and energy agenda of countries...
View ArticleHarper's delayed 'Three Amigos' meeting gives Mexico a pass on Ayotzinapa...
Prime Minister Harper's decision to indefinitely postpone the North American Leaders' Summit -- better known as the annual "Three Amigos" meeting -- likely has a lot to do with his own electoral...
View ArticleHonduran organizations demand support for farming, not mining
Last week, the Honduran National Coalition of Environmental Networks and Organizations (CONROA by its initials in Spanish) protested a World Bank-sponsored "Conference on Sustainable Development of...
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Crumbling political support for Tahoe Resources in Guatemala
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Ottawa continues to pander to Canadian mining, despite endemic violence in...
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Zacualpan's Struggle: A video series about territorial defence in Mexico
Like this article? rabble is reader-supported journalism. Chip in to keep stories like these coming.The Nahua Indigenous community of Zacualpan in the state of Colima, Mexico set out to learn about the...
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