This is just one of many horror stories that many Maya Mams, as well as
Maya Sipacapenses, from the neighbouring district, could tell about
Marlin – which they have been speaking out against, resisting and
protesting for over a decade. Speak to others and it’s the same,
desperate complaints: intimidation, threats, social division, violence,
bribery and corruption of local authorities, destruction and
contamination of water sources, livestock dying, houses shaking, cracked
walls, the criminalization of protest, forest cleared, and appalling
health impacts such as malnutrition and skin diseases.
http://www.theguardian.com/environment/andes-to-the-amazon/2014/aug/12/guatemala-gold-mine-protester-beaten-burnt-alive
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