Goldcorp Inc. in Honduras
From 2000-2008, Goldcorp Inc. - mining giant from Canada, now merged with Newmont Gold - operated a large cyanide-leeching, mountain-top removal mine in central Honduras. Local communities suffered forced evictions, repression and criminalization of community defenders, environmental destruction and health harms.
Continuing today, some villagers are suffering chronic, inter-generational health harms due to blood poisoning caused by Goldcorp’s mining operation.
No reparations were ever given to the villagers for all they suffered; no justice was ever done - in Honduras or Canada - for the mining harms, violations and crimes that Goldcorp committed directly or indirectly.
2001 April 10 - Honduran Government Leases One Third Of Country To Mining Companies
2004 April 04 - Honduras: The Global Investor’s Oasis: Cyanide Pools in the Desert
2005 January 31 - Re-release of report concerning Glamis Gold in Honduras
2005 March 03 - A Backwards, Upside-Down Kind of Development - Rights Action Report
2005 November 02 - Workers strike at Glamis gold mining operation & Article by S. Cuffe
2007 February 25 - Protests Mount Against Goldcorp (Formerly Glamis Gold) Mining Giant
2007 May 23 - “Gold, Skin, & Bones: Goldcorp’s Adventure in Honduras”, by D. Paley
2007 September 11 - Open Letter to Gov’t of Canada From the Siria Valley Environmental Committee
2007 October 21 - The Latin American Water Tribunal Findings
2007 December 04 - Photo Essay: Goldcorp Inc. Mining Co. in Honduras, by G. Russell and G. Meyer
2008 January 24 - “Lead, Mercury, Arsenic Found in Siria Valley Population”, Article by D. Meza
2009 March 23 - A Chronology of Indifference
2009 April 02 - Photo Essay: Gold mining and health harms in Honduras”, Diario Article
2011 May 09 - “The Real Cost of Gold in Honduras”, Article by K. Spring and G. Russell
2011 May 15 - Blood Poisoning at Goldcorps “San Martin” Mine in Honduras
2011 July 30 - “Criminalization of Human Rights and Environmental Defenders” Article
2011 November 08 - Goldcorp Cover-up of Health Harms in Honduras, #1, Report by Dr. Juan Almendares
2011 December 23 - Goldcorp Inc. & the Death of Lesly Yaritza
2016 February 09 - Water & Peace For Diodora Hernandez & Her Family
2016 May 14 - Goldcorp Inc’s Marlin Mine: A Family’s Pain: Death of Jaime Otero Pérez López
2016 May 16 - Diodora Hernandez & Goldcorp Inc. - A Start Contrast
2016 October 14 - Mayan Mam People Say ‘NO’ To Canadian Government’s CSR Mining Promotion Office