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1. Trade Deals Are Giving Corporations the Power to Intimidate Tiny Countries: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); Sandra Cuffe: New Republic Alejandro Guevara hasn’t slept. There was a death in La Maraña, and Guevara, the vice president of the community environmental association, spent the night at the wake. Still, ...; Created on 13 May 2015
2. A New Environmentalist Playbook An improbable victory in El Salvador offers lessons for grassroots activists worldwide: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... the local community. Prostitutes were sent to local community groups to try to entice the water defenders’ leaders. Gang members were bused in from San Salvador to intimidate opponents of the pro-mining ...; Created on 23 April 2021
3. Australian-Canadian mining company OceanaGold misleads public on Filipino mine: (OceanaGold Philippines); ... firearms to intimidate them. Residents were beaten and one was shot by OceanaGold security personnel. The report noted that OceanaGold “is largely responsible for the continuing threats to security of ...; Created on 22 April 2021
4. The lawyers in the Guapinol case reject denial of appeal stating that it was copied and pasted form a different resolution: (Mining and Human Rights); ... company came to intimidate a peaceful camp that had been installed in the community of Guapinol as a demonstration of their legitimate opposition to an iron oxide mine operating illegally in the Carlos ...; Created on 24 August 2020
5. HONDURAS: Human rights defenders threatened by armed groups during quarantine: (Regional News); ... Platform, also reported being intimidated and threatened with detention twice by military and security agents of a supermarket. In addition, leaders of La Lempira, including Raúl Ramírez of the Unified ...; Created on 31 July 2020
6. Land Defenders Are Killed in the Philippines for Protesting Canadian Mining: (OceanaGold Philippines); ... President Rodrigo Duterte, is often used to silence and intimidate people critical of the regime—human rights defenders, journalists, even local residents—by alleging ties between them and the national ...; Created on 04 October 2019
7. The Peaceful Resistance of La Puya fights for the right to water: (Regional News); ... 2012 -- Peace Brigades International-Guatemala Project begins providing protective accompaniment to the Peaceful Resistance of La Puya. December 2012 -- Security guards hired by Exmingua intimidate journalists ...; Created on 03 May 2019
8. Letter of support for defenders of "La Puya" ...: (La Puya International Support Letter); ... personnel in San José del Golfo out of concern that their presence is intended to intimidate and provoke communities in resistance into thinking the mining company is back as a result of the international ...; Created on 26 February 2019
9. Criminalisation brought to new extremes in case of Aymara indigenous communities in Peru: (Regional News); ... and to intimidate organized civil society. Enemies of the State “In Peru,” says Tomas Medina Mamanchulla, President of the Jatuncachi peasant community in Puno, "there are laws to criminalise popular ...; Created on 28 August 2018
10. ADES demands further investigation into the murder of Marcelo Rivera: (Mining and Human Rights); ... and violence against members of communities struggling to prevent exploration and mining in San Isidro, Cabañas also affected journalists from Radio Victoria, who were repeatedly intimidated via text ...; Created on 12 July 2015
11. Murdered environmental activists remembered: (Mining and Human Rights); ... activity and to intimidate volunteers who were handing out flyers. The next day, June 3, 2011, Juan Francisco was abducted on his way to the Technical University in San Salvador, where he was a student. ...; Created on 30 December 2014
12. Mining multinationals exploit Central America: (Water no Gold); ... concerned and is trying to take measures against the company.” Intimidation Violence is often used by giant companies to intimidate locals out of challenging destructive corporate practices. The struggle ...; Created on 03 December 2013
13. Cabañas 2012 Sign On Letter: (2013 International Support for Mining Ban); ... part of a systematic campaign to intimidate environmental and community organizations in Cabañas. We vehemently reject the statement by the prosecutor from the Attorney General’s Office, Rodolfo Delgado, ...; Created on 24 April 2012
14. Ruling Rejected in the Case of Murdered Environmentalists: (Mining and Human Rights); ... to testify against the accused during the judicial process, he was pressured by the Attorney General’s office and they tried to intimidate him by threatening to incarcerate him if he testified. Pineda, ...; Created on 18 April 2012
15. Threats and Attacks to Religious Leader in Cabañas: (Mining and Human Rights); ... El Salvador that have been murdered since 2009. Also, numerous other community organizers, leaders, priests, and local radio station staff have received threats and been attacked and intimidated during ...; Created on 12 March 2012
16. Enviornmentalist Threatened, Murdered in El Salvador: (Mining and Human Rights); ... or intimidated for their efforts to protect El Salvador’s water, natural resources and livelihoods from harmful mining projects. The latest outrage occurred on January 20, 2012. Father Neftalí Ruiz, ...; Created on 22 February 2012

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