Goldcorp Security Shoots Peaceful Protesters in Guatemala 1st May

Police, mil­i­tary and pri­vate secu­ri­ty attack peace­ful anti-min­ing pro­test­ers at the San Rafael mine in Guatemala, Sep. 2008

From Rights Action:

Six civil­ians were shot and wound­ed (2 seri­ous­ly) on April 27, 2013 by Tahoe / Gold­corp secu­ri­ty forces at Tahoe’s “San Rafael” mine site (munic­i­pal­i­ty of San Rafael Las Flo­res, depart­ment of San­ta Rosa, Guatemala).  The wound­ed are: Adol­fo Gar­cía, 57; his son Luis Gar­cía, 18; Wilmer Pérez, 17; Anto­nio Hum­ber­to  Castil­lo, 48;  Noé Aguilar Castil­lo, 27; Érick Fer­nan­do Castil­lo, 27.  Local res­i­dents, who are main­tain­ing a per­ma­nent peace­ful occu­pa­tion by the mine entrance in protest against it, saw com­pa­ny armed guards open fire on the group of men who were walk­ing by.  (Pren­sa Libre, April 29, 2013, http://www.prensalibre.com/santa_rosa/personas-resultan-incidente-San-Rafael_0_909509181.html)

Read more here about Goldcorp’s (and sub­sidiary Tahoe Resources’) recent his­to­ry of vio­lence and repres­sion against indige­nous and campesino com­mu­ni­ties in Guatemala.