Ex-Hudbay official pleads guilty in Guatemala slaying Posted:
A former head of security with Hudbay Minerals in Guatemala has pleaded guilty to killing an Indigenous community leader in 2009.
A former head of security with Hudbay Minerals in Guatemala has pleaded guilty to killing an Indigenous community leader in 2009.
Mynor Padilla pleaded guilty in Guatemalan court to homicide committed in an emotionally violent state for the slaying of Adolfo Ich Chaman at Hudbay’s Felix mine, and the shooting of a bystander, German Chub Choc, who was left paralyzed.
Hudbay, which later sold the mine, operates a zinc mine in Flin Flon, Man. It is slated for closure next year.
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The former chief of security for a nickel mine once owned by a Canadian mining company in Guatemala has pleaded guilty to criminal charges in that country in connection with an alleged homicide and serious assault on Indigenous activists that stretch back over a decade.
On Wednesday, a judge in Guatemala accepted criminal pleas from Mynor Ronaldo Padilla Gonzalez, including admissions, translated from Spanish, to ‘homicide in an emotional state’ and ‘culpable violence,’ according to lawyers in Canada who represent plaintiffs in a civil case here related to the same incidents, who were monitoring the case through an associate in the Guatemalan court.