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Guatemalans win right to sue Tahoe Resources in B.C.

February 17, 2017
| Six farmers and a student from Guatemala shot while protesting a mine won an important victory when the B.C. Court of Appeal said their lawsuit against Tahoe Resources could be heard in B.C.
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International organizations celebrate precedent-setting step toward justice in civil suit against Tahoe Resources in Canada for violence in Guatemala
January 29, 2017 |
Canadian and US civil society organizations welcome a British Columbia Court of Appeals’ decision that Vancouver is the preferred forum for a civil suit to be heard against Tahoe Resources
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Tahoe Resources' former security manager turns fugitive
December 2, 2015 |
On Monday, plaintiffs in the criminal case against Tahoe Resources' former security manager, Alberto Rotondo, were informed that he had escaped police custody.
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State of fear created to force Tahoe Resources' mine on Guatemalan communities
November 16, 2015 |
A new report reveals the dramatic extent of the militarized security strategy that Canadian-U.S. mining company Tahoe Resources developed to quash community opposition.
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Crumbling political support for Tahoe Resources in Guatemala
September 16, 2015 |
If the militarized security strategy that Tahoe Resources has used to put its Escobal silver mine into operation isn't enough to raise questions, the recent resignation of Otto Pérez Molina should be.
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Crumbling political support for Tahoe Resources in Guatemala
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Jennifer Moore
| September 14, 2015

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How a quasi-military project was created to protect Tahoe Resources' Escobal mine
By
Luis Solano
| April 10, 2015

On November 24, 2014, Donald Paul Gray, vice president of Tahoe Resources Inc., submitted an affadavit to the British Columbia Superior Court that sheds light on the powerful interests at play since 2011 in connection with private security companies contracted for the Escobal mining project in San Rafael Las Flores, Santa Rosa. His affidavit points to the relationship between private security companies and military and intelligence services that carry out large military projects in Afghanistan and Iraq, and with mining and construction operations in Guatemala.

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A cheat sheet for Kevin McArthur on Tahoe Resources' tactics to silence opposition in Guatemala
By
Jennifer Moore
| October 17, 2014

Mr. Kevin McArthur, the CEO of Tahoe Resources who came out of retirement after leaving Goldcorp in 2008 to develop the Escobal silver mine in southeastern Guatemala, has been summoned by a District Attorney's office in Guatemala. He has been called to testify about the company's tactics to put down opposition to the Escobal mine, such as through framing leaders on false or trumped up charges.

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Voices of the resistance movement in Guatemala

"I want Canadians to know that the silver, and possibly the gold, that is being extracted from Guatemala is bloodstained," said human rights lawyer and activist, Rafael Maldonaldo.

There has been a lack of consultation between Guatemala's government and Tahoe Resources Inc. (a Canada-based mining company), and the local communities in the region.

Maggie Padlewska travelled there last month, to explore the allegations, and to document the voices of the communities impacted by Tahoe's Escobal Mine in San Rafael and surrounding areas.

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Allegations of violence at Guatemala mine filed in Canadian court

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A group of men is suing a Canadian mining company, Tahoe Resources Inc., over injuries they received while protesting at a silver mine in Guatemala.

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