/PRNewswire/ Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights today announced the Guatemalan organization Parlamento del Pueblo Xinka (Parliament of the Xinka People) as the.
Heavy-metals pollution threatens indigenous agriculture throughout the region, reports Edgardo Ayala.
By Edgardo Ayala
in San Salvador
Inter Press Service
Like an octopus, metals mining has been spreading its tentacles throughout Central America and dealing a blow to the region’s agriculture an
Mining is at the center of a campaign of repression and violence targeting environmentalists and human rights defenders in Guatemala. The government is violently quashing opposition, and foreign mining companies are pushing forward despite significant local opposition and the human rights violations taking place.
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