Timeline - NISGUA

June 2017

Six police officers on duty when former head of security for Escobal mine fled house arrest sentenced to multiple years in prison

nisgua_admin2020-01-01T21:25:41+00:00Tags: Alberto Rotondo, Escobal mine, PNC, Tahoe Resources|

Featured photo credit: CALAS With files from the Maritimes-Guatemala Breaking the Silence Network. On June 1, Guatemala trial Judge Verónica Ruíz convicted six members of the National Civil Police for breach of duty. All six [...]

May 2017

Se solicita a la Comisión de Valores de Columbia Británica investigar a minera por no revelar información sustancial a inversionistas

nisgua_admin2020-01-01T21:25:50+00:00Tags: BCSC, CODIDENA, Escobal mine, Español, Tahoe Resources|

Comunicado de Prensa (CIUDAD DE GUATEMALA/OAKLAND/TORONTO/OTTAWA/TATAMAGOUCHE) – Mientras en los tribunales de Columbia Británica avanza una demanda civil contra Tahoe Resources por violencia es su mina Escobal en Guatemala, organizaciones de derechos humanos instan a [...]

British Columbia Securities Commission Asked to Investigate Mining Company’s Failure to Disclose Material Facts to Investors

nisgua_admin2020-01-01T21:25:59+00:00Tags: B.C. Securities Commission, Canada, CODIDENA, Escobal mine, Tahoe Resources|

Justice and Corporate Accountability Project (JCAP) – Network in Solidarity with the People of Guatemala (NISGUA) – Maritimes-Guatemala Breaking the Silence Network (BTS) – MiningWatch Canada – Diocesan Committee in Defense of Nature (CODIDENA) (Guatemala [...]

Join us on tour this Fall with JODVID!

nisgua_admin2017-12-08T21:33:23+00:00Tags: "Guatemalan Youth Defend Land and Life", cross-border organizing, environmental defenders, Escobal mine, JODVID, political education and horizontal exchange, Tahoe Resources, Topacio Reynoso Pacheco, tours, youth|

This fall, we’re excited to welcome Alex Escobar Prado as the featured speaker for this year's tour, "Guatemalan Youth in Defense of Land and Life!" Alex is an activist, educator, and a member of the [...]

Solidarity Update: May 2017

nisgua_admin2019-12-27T19:06:47+00:00Tags: accompanier perspective, accompaniment, actions, AJR, attacks, CALDH, Constitutional Court, Dos Erres, environmental defenders, genocide trial, impunity, Ixil, nisgua report, Rios Montt, Topacio Reynoso Pacheco|

News recap: Motions filed against former Constitutional Court judges for breach of duty in overturning the genocide verdict; Ríos Montt to stand trial for genocide for his role in the Dos Erres massacre; Accompanier perspective: [...]

Movements resisting resource extraction are being met with targeted violence

nisgua_admin2020-01-01T21:26:06+00:00Tags: attacks, environmental defenders, hydroelectric dams, megadevelopment projects, Mining, nisgua report, political prisoners, Tahoe Resources, UDEFEGUA, Xalalá Dam|

Over the last several decades, transnational resource extraction companies have flocked to Central America. Licenses to construct hydroelectric dams, exploit minerals, or build the necessary infrastructure to make these types of projects possible are [...]