Aura Minerals criminalizes Azacualpa community members

September 7, 2021
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Criminalization of 35 Azacualpa community members by U.S. mining company Aura Minerals and MINOSA (Honduran subsidiary)
https://mailchi.mp/rightsaction/aura-minerals-criminalizes-azacualpa-community-members

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], [email protected], https://www.facebook.com/EstudiosparalaDignidad/
Hector Antonio Trigueros, Environmental Committee of Azacualpa, https://www.facebook.com/azacualparesiste/
ACI-Participa, https://www.facebook.com/aci.participa/, @aci.participa, https://aciparticipa.org/

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: https://rightsaction.org/aura-minerals-archives
Photo Gallery: https://rightsaction.org/aura-minerals-photos

Films

“Story Behind the Story: What Aura Minerals didn't want us to see in Azacualpa” (2017), 4 minute film by Maggie Padlewska: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T1uY6E6zs7Q
“Where even the Dead can’t rest” (2019), 6 minute film by Trocaire: https://vimeo.com/365482741
“La Fiera de Azacualpa: Resistiendo la avaricia y destrucción de Aura Minerals” (2019): https://youtu.be/o42NDTIgAFM

Updates - Honduran political, human rights issues: https://lists.riseup.net/www/info/honduras_daily

Aura Minerals/MINOSA
[email protected] / +1 305-239-9332 / www.auraminerals.com
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];
Sergio Castanho, [email protected];
João Kleber Cardoso, [email protected];
Richmond Fenn, [email protected];
Monty Reed, [email protected];

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

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