Community leaders have also been targeted for assassination. Anti-mining activist Yolanda Oquely Veliz was shot last June after protests against a mine operated by a subsidiary of Canadian company Radius Gold Inc.
Mining companies Goldcorp Inc, Tahoe Resources, Hudbay Mineral and Skye Resources, among others, have been accused by activists of damaging the environment and in some cases supporting serious human rights violations.
Some of these mining companies operate on land granted to them by the military government that overthrew the progressive Arbenz government in 1954. Successive governments sold large swaths of the countryside to foreign corporations.
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