Aura Minerals / MINOSA begins exploitation work on the soil of the Maya Chortí cemetery in Azacualpa.
From Azacualpa, La Unión, #Copán , they report the arrest of Misael Garcia. A resident who is opposed to the mining company finishing removing the dead that remain in the cemetery. The goal: to extract more gold from the hill.
Workers of the Austria Duvaz mining company denounce the repression they have suffered in Morococha by the PNP on their seventh day of strike. They demand labor reinstatement before collective dismissal that they suffered at the beginning of the year. They denounce the use of pellets by Peru police.
In #Colombia #Bogotá at the Norwegian Embassy miners protest against a government that subjects its peasants to war, dispossesses them of their land, murders, tortures, threatens, breaks the agreements, now evicts them and throws them into begging.
Community members from El Jobo, in Ayutla, San Marcos denounced that security personnel from the Guatemalan business group Duwest and Westrade attacked them by firing firearms. So far it is unknown if there are injured people.