Rights Action
March 26, 2019
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Aura Minerals (MINOSA) blowing up Honduras in partnership with corrupt, repressive regime
Aura Minerals pushes ahead with its legally contested open-pit, cyanide-leaching gold mining in western Honduras, by the 200 year old Azacualpa Cemetery that Aura has been illegally digging up, as Aura uses the corrupted Honduran legal system to ‘criminalize’ 19 community/ human rights/ environmental defenders for their efforts to defend their lives and community, local economy, environment and cemetery!
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Why Hondurans and Guatemalans Flee
The U.S. and Canadian governments, the U.S. military, and North American businesses and investors (hydro-electric dams, mining, African palm, tourism, cattle, fruit, etc.) maintain profitable relations with corrupt, repressive governments in Honduras and Guatemala, turning a blind eye to and benefitting from repression, environmental devastation, human rights violations, corruption and impunity.
Once in a while, the mainstream media reports on the plight of tens of thousands of Guatemalans and Hondurans fleeing, year after year, ignoring why they flee.
Pending destruction of the historic village of Azacualpa
Not only do most community members want the destruction of their cemetery and digging up of their buried loved ones to stop, but they know that Aura wants not only the gold under the cemetery, but also on the other side of the cemetery, up the mountain ridge, including – a few kilometers away – the historic village of Azaculapa.
Write/Contact
Write the company directly -- with copies to your media and elected politicians in Canada and the U.S. -- calling on them to immediately suspend all aspects of the Aura/MINOSA mining operation in Honduras, including the digging up of bodies.
Tax-Deductible Donations (Canada & U.S.)
Since 2014, Rights Action has supported the Azacualpa Environmental Committee and their environmental, community, human rights and cemetery defense work. To support their cemetery and community, human rights and environmental defense struggle, make check payable to "Rights Action" and mail to:
- U.S.: Box 50887, Washington DC, 20091-0887
- Canada: (Box 552) 351 Queen St. E, Toronto ON, M5A-1T8
