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The Marlin Gold Mine and Conflictivity in San Marcos

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!”

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Goldcorp: Marlin, San Marcos
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!”