35 community and environmental defenders from Azacualpa and other villages are being prosecuted on trumped up charges. Aura Minerals/MINOSA had 19 people charged since 2017. Now, 16 more have been added. They face criminal charges of "damages to private property".
September 1, 2021, Courthouse, Santa Rosa Copan
Criminal charges against territory defenders from Azacualpa, La Union, Copan
"Aura / MINOSA causes all our problems"
"The only crime we have done is to protect the environment and, from there, life"
Who "damages" what?
Aura Minerals/MINOSA damages and destroys the Azacualpa cemetery, the community and surroundings, the environment, the local economy and families now without jobs (many have gone as refugees into exile), and ... takes advantage of the corruption and impunity of the regime in power (steadfast "democratic ally" of the U.S. and Canada) to prosecute villagers for “damages of private property”.
More information
Bufete de Estudios para la Dignidad, sanjuanvic@yahoo.com, direccion@bufetedignidad.org, https://www.facebook.com/EstudiosparalaDignidad/
Hector Antonio Trigueros, Environmental Committee of Azacualpa, https://www.facebook.com/azacualparesiste/
ACI-Participa, https://www.facebook.com/aci.participa/, @aci.participa, https://aciparticipa.org/
U.S./Canada: Grahame Russell, Rights Action, info@rightsaction.org
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Background
Azacualpa Environmental Community struggle in defense of land, rights and cemetery:
Archives: https://rightsaction.org/aura-minerals-archives
Photo Gallery: https://rightsaction.org/aura-minerals-photos
Films
“Story Behind the Story: What Aura Minerals didn't want us to see in Azacualpa” (2017), 4 minute film by Maggie Padlewska: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T1uY6E6zs7Q
“Where even the Dead can’t rest” (2019), 6 minute film by Trocaire: https://vimeo.com/365482741
“La Fiera de Azacualpa: Resistiendo la avaricia y destrucción de Aura Minerals” (2019): https://youtu.be/o42NDTIgAFM
Updates - Honduran political, human rights issues: https://lists.riseup.net/www/info/honduras_daily
Aura Minerals/MINOSA
info@auraminerals.com / +1 305-239-9332 / www.auraminerals.com
78 SW 7th St, Aura Minerals @ WeWork, Miami, FL 33130, USA
Craigmuir Chambers, PO Box 71, VG1110, British Virgin Islands
Management
Rodrigo Barbosa, President & CEO, rbarbosa@auraminerals.com;
Sergio Castanho, SCastanho@auraminerals.com;
João Kleber Cardoso, kcardoso@auraminerals.com;
Richmond Fenn, rfenn@auraminerals.com;
Monty Reed, mreed@auraminerals.com;
Board
Rodrigo Barbosa, President & CEO, rbarbosa@auraminerals.com;
Stephen Keith, snskeith@gmail.com;
Philip Reade, philip.reade@outlook.com;
