Guatemala: attentat against gold mine opponent
Telma Yolanda Oqueli, a community leader in San José del Golfo municipality outside Guatemala City, was shot in the chest and gravely wounded by a gunman on a motorbike June 13. She was returning home from a protest vigil when she was intercepted by the two men on the motorbike. Residents of San José del Golfo and neighboring San Pedro Ayampuc have since March 2 been daily blocking the entrance to the Tambor/Progreso 7 Derivada run by Exploraciones Mineras de Guatemala, SA (EXMINGUA), local subsidiary of Canadian junior Radius Gold Inc. The North Metropolitan People's Resistance Front (FRENAM) is asserting the communities' right to a consultation, or local plebiscite, on the mining project. The project began exploratory operations earlier this year without any consent from the local population; nor has the government of Guatemala, carried out any consultation. Oqueli, a leader of the blockades, had received FRENAM has issued an urgent call for the Guatemalan state to guarantee of the communities. (Noticias Comunicarte, CoDev, June 13; MiMundo, June 4 via UDW)
See our last posts on Guatemala, Central America and the mineral cartel.
Please leave a tip or answer the Exit Poll.
Recent Updates
18 min 38 sec ago
29 min 38 sec ago
14 hours 28 min ago
14 hours 40 min ago
15 hours 16 min ago
3 days 15 hours ago
3 days 15 hours ago
4 days 1 hour ago
4 days 20 hours ago
4 days 20 hours ago