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Mining Conflict and Indigenous Consultation in Guatemala

By Angela Bunch , Carlos Loarca

Mining conflicts can be mitigated through adherence to already agreed-upon international norms.

A handful of Mayan-Q’eqchi’ men and women met with lawyers late last year in Ontario to review the details of three lawsuits filed in local courts against the Canadian mining company HudBay Minerals. They had traveled to Canada to pursue legal recourse for their claim that security personnel at the company’s Fenix Mining Project in El Estor, Guatemala, attacked, shot and raped Indigenous people between 2007 and 2009 who had criticized the mine...

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