Goldcorp: Marlin, San Marcos
33 images Created 19 Oct 2011
Since 2004, the operations of Goldcorp's Marlin Gold Mine in Guatemala's western highlands has caused serious internal conflicts within the local Mayan communities in San Miguel Ixtahuacán and Sipacapa.
More info: http://www.mimundo.org/tag/marlin-mine/
More info: http://www.mimundo.org/tag/marlin-mine/
![María Sebastiana Pérez holds a photo of his son, Byron Lionel Bámaca Pérez, who disappeared in May 2007 along with her brother-in-law, Marco Tulio Rodríguez. Both men worked as cooks for Goldcorp's Marlin mine and disappeared while sent on an errand for the company. “My husband worked for Montana [local subsidiary of Goldcorp], but he was fired,” explains Mrs. Pérez. “So when my son went to ask them [to rehire his father], company workers took him to Quiche… And he never came back. I want the company to leave. They have done enough harm to us.”](https://m.psecn.photoshelter.com/img-get2/I0000daVYm346Y5E/fit=180x180/fill=/g=G0000sVAFsGwXRaU/I0000daVYm346Y5E.jpg)
![Patrocinia Mejía Pérez, one of the so-called Agel Eight charged by Goldcorp of causing a short circuit that interrupted the Marlin gold mine's operations on June 2008, comments: “I don’t know why the [mining] company comes here to harass us. Why do they come with their police? They should have talked to us. We do not carry guns or machetes, while the PNC officers are heavily armed. How is it possible that the company pits the police against us? Is that how they thank us for selling them our plots of land? They take away the gold, and now they put us in jail… If they had considered us, we wouldn’t have had to rise up. But they did not consider us. We don’t want any Canadians to come and boss us around in our own land! We are native Miguelenses!”](https://m.psecn.photoshelter.com/img-get2/I00000TrcD_kyHBM/fit=180x180/fill=/g=G0000sVAFsGwXRaU/I00000TrcD_kyHBM.jpg)
