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La Puya: Day After the Eviction

The day after being violently evicted by the Guatemalan Police, Mabe Alvarado serves coffee to other resistance members at the new La Puya peaceful resistance camp as Police officers in the background guard the entrance to the El Tambor mine. After two years and two months of peacefully blocking the entrance to U.S.-based Kappes, Cassiday & Associates (KCA) El Tambor gold mine, local residents of San Jose del Golfo and San Pedro Ayampuc were violently evicted by Guatemalan Police forces on May 23, 2014, in order to introduce heavy machinery inside the industrial site. La Puya, San Pedro Ayampuc, Guatemala. May 24, 2014.

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Contained in galleries: 2014-05-24: The Day After Eviction

The day after being violently evicted by the Guatemalan Police, Mabe Alvarado serves coffee to other resistance members at the new La Puya peaceful resistance camp as Police officers in the background guard the entrance to the El Tambor mine. After two years and two months of peacefully blocking the entrance to U.S.-based Kappes, Cassiday & Associates (KCA) El Tambor gold mine, local residents of San Jose del Golfo and San Pedro Ayampuc were violently evicted by Guatemalan Police forces on May 23, 2014, in order to introduce heavy machinery inside the industrial site. La Puya, San Pedro Ayampuc, Guatemala. May 24, 2014.