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Violent Eviction of La Puya

Local women from the La Puya resistance pray and read the bible as they attempt to dissuade the Police officers to retreat. 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 in order to introduce heavy machinery inside the industrial site. La Puya, San Pedro Ayampuc, Guatemala. May 23, 2014.

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Local women from the La Puya resistance pray and read the bible as they attempt to dissuade the Police officers to retreat. 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 in order to introduce heavy machinery inside the industrial site. La Puya, San Pedro Ayampuc, Guatemala. May 23, 2014.