Criminalization of 35 Azacualpa community members by U.S. mining company Aura Minerals and MINOSA (Honduran subsidiary)

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September 7, 2021
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Criminalization of 35 Azacualpa community members by U.S. mining company Aura Minerals and MINOSA (Honduran subsidiary)
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35 community and environmental defenders from Azacualpa and other villages are being prosecuted on trumped up charges. Aura Minerals/MINOSA had 19 people charged since 2017. Now, 16 more have been added. They face criminal charges of "damages to private property".

September 1, 2021, Courthouse, Santa Rosa Copan
Criminal charges against territory defenders from Azacualpa, La Union, Copan

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"Aura / MINOSA causes all our problems"
"The only crime we have done is to protect the environment and, from there, life"
Who "damages" what?
Aura Minerals/MINOSA damages and destroys the Azacualpa cemetery, the community and surroundings, the environment, the local economy and families now without jobs (many have gone as refugees into exile), and ... takes advantage of the corruption and impunity of the regime in power (steadfast "democratic ally" of the U.S. and Canada) to prosecute villagers for “damages of private property”.

More information
* Bufete de Estudios para la Dignidad, [email protected] (mailto:[email protected]) , [email protected] (mailto:[email protected]) , [link removed]
* Hector Antonio Trigueros, Environmental Committee of Azacualpa, [link removed]
* ACI-Participa, [link removed], @aci.participa, [link removed]

U.S./Canada: Grahame Russell, Rights Action, [email protected]

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Background
Azacualpa Environmental Community struggle in defense of land, rights and cemetery:
Archives: [link removed]
Photo Gallery: [link removed]

Films
* “Story Behind the Story: What Aura Minerals didn't want us to see in Azacualpa” (2017), 4 minute film by Maggie Padlewska: [link removed]
* “Where even the Dead can’t rest” (2019), 6 minute film by Trocaire: [link removed]
* “La Fiera de Azacualpa: Resistiendo la avaricia y destrucción de Aura Minerals” (2019): [link removed]

Updates - Honduran political, human rights issues: [link removed]

Aura Minerals/MINOSA
[email protected] (mailto:[email protected]) / +1 305-239-9332 ([link removed]) / www.auraminerals.com ([link removed])
78 SW 7th St, Aura Minerals @ WeWork, Miami, FL 33130, USA
Craigmuir Chambers, PO Box 71, VG1110, British Virgin Islands

Management
Rodrigo Barbosa, President & CEO, [email protected] (mailto:[email protected]) ;
Sergio Castanho, [email protected] (mailto:[email protected]) ;
João Kleber Cardoso, [email protected] (mailto:[email protected]) ;
Richmond Fenn, [email protected] (mailto:[email protected]) ;
Monty Reed, [email protected] (mailto:[email protected]) ;

Board
Rodrigo Barbosa, President & CEO, [email protected] (mailto:[email protected]) ;
Stephen Keith, [email protected] (mailto:[email protected]) ;
Philip Reade, [email protected] (mailto:[email protected]) ;

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Tax-Deductible Donations (Canada & U.S.)
To support land, human rights and environmental defender groups in Honduras and Guatemala, make check to "Rights Action" and mail to:
* U.S.: Box 50887, Washington DC, 20091-0887
* Canada: (Box 552) 351 Queen St. E, Toronto ON, M5A-1T8

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Donations of securities in Canada and the U.S.? Write to: [email protected] (mailto:[email protected])

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