"Canadian mining corporations can no longer hide behind their legal corporate structure to abdicate responsibility for human rights abuses that take place at foreign mines under their control at various locations throughout the world," said Toronto law firm Klippensteins, which is representing the Guatemalan villagers.
The case centres around a project formerly owned by Hudbay Minerals of Flin Flon, MB, and a mine site, El Estor, in a fairly remote and mountainous area of the South American country, on disputed lands the Mayan Q'eqchi locals claim is traditional ancestral territory.
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