Exporting Dispossession?
Through Canada’s global mining dominance, domestic rules have world-wide effects May 2013
On September 27, 2009, local Mayan community leader Adolfo Ich Chamán—an outspoken critic of mining impacts on his community—died during violent clashes near his home in El Estor, Guatemala. In a suit brought before the Ontario Superior Court, Ich’s widow alleges that he was snatched, beaten and ultimately shot by private security personnel employed by the nearby…