Monthly Archives: June 2015
Zibechi: Extractivism staggers
EXTRACTIVISM STAGGERS
Conflicts over Tia Maria Mine have left 4 people dead in Peru.
By: Raúl Zibechi
Resistance to extractivism [1] is sweeping the Latin American continent, from north to south, from the Atlantic to the Pacific, involving all the countries, forcing governments to put its military in the streets and decree states of emergency to terrorize populations that no longer yield, because they are suffering the consequences of the model.
Open sky mega-mining, large public works like hydroelectric dams, mono-crops fumigated with glyphosate and real estate speculation are being responded to as never before in intensity, extension and duration. The peoples are obtaining pueblos important victories in recent years: paralyzing the planting of Monsanto seeds in Malvinas Argentina; stopping the Barrick Gold, Pascua Lama bi-national project; postponing the construction of dozens of dams, as happened with La Parota, in México.
In recent weeks it has been the population of…
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The Marlin Mine and Women’s Resistance
Nancy and Crisanta
Español By Nancy Sabas, the Connecting Peoples Coordinator for MCC Guatemala/El Salvador, originally from Honduras.
Was it you who sent the miners?
They violate the womb of Mother Earth
They take the gold, destroying the hills.
One gram of blood is worth more than a thousand kilos of gold.
What about my people?
And you, my God, where are you hiding?
Fear paralyzes us
My people are sold and they do not realize it.
-Portion of a song written by the Parish of San Miguel Ixtahuacán.
A few weeks ago, I organized a learning tour for North American participants to discuss the mining industry in Guatemala, On the tour, we visited the department of San Marcos and surrounding communities that deal with this problem.
Mining operations in Guatemala are not a recent issue. In 1998, two years after the signing of the peace agreement following a…
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Justice and Solidarity 