Your Custom Text Here
Lote 8 community members gather on the site of their original community, that was violently evicted and burned to the ground on January 9 and 17, 2007 – by company security guards, police, soldiers - to make way for the illegal mining operation of Skye Resources (Hudbay Minerals).
Lawyers Cory Wanless and Murray Klippenstein, with four of the Hudbay Minerals lawsuits plaintiffs (Elena Choc, Amalia Cac, Carmela Caal, Angelica Choc) in Toronto, November 2017, as they prepare to be deposed by Hudbay’s lawyers during examinations for discovery.
Adolfo Ich, husband of Angelica Choc, teacher, respected land and rights defender, killed by Hudbay Minerals security guards (under control of Mynor Padilla), September 27, 2009.
Irma Yolanda greetings lawyer Murray Klippenstein before entering court in Toronto, September 2019, for a pleadings amendment hearing in the gang-rape case (part of the Hudbay Minerals lawsuits).
Courageous Mayan Q'eqchi' land and rights defenders Margarita Caal and Maria Cuc Choc.
Maria Cuc Choc – sister of Angelica Choc, and criminalized on trumped up charges for her land and rights defense work – holds sign: “One does not fear jail or death when one’s conscience is clear, defending territory. We are tired of so much dispossession by foreign countries. Defending one’s rights is not a crime.”
Public education work outside a Hudbay Minerals annual shareholder meeting in Toronto, coordinated by MISN (Mining Injustice Solidarity Network).
Q’eqchi’ women in their community of Lote 8, in the mountains above Lake Izabal. Here, five (Carmela Caal, Amalia Cac, Lucia Caal, Irma Yolanda, Rosa Elbira) of the gang-rape victims at the hands of Skye Resources (Hudbay Minerals) security guards, Guatemalan police and soldiers – all being plaintiffs in the Hudbay Minerals lawsuits.
PC: James Rodriguez
Amalia Cac, Rosa Elbira and Margarita Caal accompany Angelica Choc and German Chub during one of their hearings during the Mynor Padilla (former head of security for Skye Resources and Hudbay Minerals) trial for murder (of Adolfo Ich) and aggravated assault (of German Chub).
Angelica Choc and German Chub at a hearing during the Mynor Padilla (former head of security for Skye Resources and Hudbay Minerals) trial for murder (of Adolfo Ich) and aggravated assault (of German Chub).
Angelica Choc (with Grahame Russell) at a Hudbay Minerals lawsuits hearing in Toronto, May 2016.
Rosa Elbira and Angelica Choc at a Hudbay Minerals lawsuits hearing in Toronto, November 2012.
Amalia Cac, Angelica Choc, Carmela Caal and Elena Choc enjoying snow for the first time, November 2017, at home of Grahame Russell where the plaintiffs stay when required to come to Canada during the Hudbay Minerals lawsuits.
The nickel processing plant in El Estor, Guatemala, first built by INCO in the 1970s, before being refurbished by Skye Resources and Hudbay Minerals (2004-2011), then finally operated – illegally! - by Solway Investment Group, 2011 to the present.
A military helicopter landed illegally in front of Angelica Choc’s home, July 17, 2020 (right where Adolfo Ich was killed and German Chub left paralyzed on September 27, 2009), just as the military-backed regime of Guatemala implemented a military state of siege in El Estor, during COVID19, in support of the illegal mining operation of Solway Investment Group.
Mayan Q’eqchi’ villagers protest (futilely) in January 2007 as Guatemalan police, soldiers and mining company guards illegally evicted them from their homes in their recently built village of Barrio Revolucion.
A 2019 Rights Action meeting in El Estor, Guatemala, updating the Q’eqchi’ plaintiffs on the next steps in the Hudbay Minerals lawsuits.
Lawyer Murray Klippenstein speaks to two plaintiffs (Angelica Choc and Carmela Caal) during a break in the November 2017 depositions (examinations for discovery) in Toronto.
Five plaintiffs (Olivia Asig, Angelica Choc, Irma Yolanda Choc Quib, Irma Yolanda Choc Cac, Luisa Caal) enjoy some down time, at home of Grahame Russell where the plaintiffs stay when required to come to Canada during the Hudbay Minerals lawsuits.