The Peace Brigades International-Guatemala Project has posted on social media:
“Yesterday [March 8] we attended the 14th anniversary of the Peaceful Resistance of La Puya.
Hundreds of residents and friends of the Resistance gathered for recreational activities and to share their commitment to the fight against mining and corruption. They also celebrated last December’s arbitration ruling, which rejected the mining company’s claim against Guatemala, thanks to the Resistance’s participation in the process.”
Vancouver-based Radius Gold
The story of the Peaceful Resistance begins with the Vancouver, Canada-based mining company Radius Gold securing an exploitation licence from the Guatemalan Ministry of Energy and Mines in 2011.
On March 2, 2012, area residents, who had not been consulted about this mine, set up a 24-hour a day blockade at the entrance to the mine site. Within weeks, on May 8, 2012, the women of the Peaceful Resistance of La Puya laid on the ground, sang and prayed to stop bulldozers from entering the mine.
A few months later, in August 2012, Radius Gold sold the mine to KCA.
PBI-Canada visits La Puya
On Sunday May 7, 2023, PBI-Canada and PBI-Guatemala visited with Doña Licha and the Peaceful Resistance of La Puya at a roadside site that it has maintained at the entrance to the “El Tambor” Progreso VII Derivada gold mine.
We continue to follow this.
PBI-Canada at La Puya, May 7, 2023.
