A clear example of this model is happening with Marlin mine in Guatemala, run by Canadian transnational corporation Goldcorp. On April 24, the Meso-American movement against the Mining Extractive Model (M4) issued a press release to demand Goldcorp to pay 49 million USD, nothing compared with what the company offered as part of a closing plan, which consists in divesting nearly a million USD.

The organizations claim the mining corporation has failed to inform about its closing plans to the affected communities, which have suffered “serious and irreversible health damage”.

“When they came to our lands they poisoned our basins and divided our communities and families. They caused deforestation, loss of biodiversity and food sovereignty of peasant and indigenous regions”.
The Mesoamerican organization also mentions that the company will hold its annual shareholders meeting on April 26 in Canada, so they would like to greet the organizations of that country, which have exposed the impacts caused by Goldcorp in Latin America.

“M4 urges the pension funds and other economic sectors of Canada to withdraw their investments from mining corporation GoldCorp, which depletes the environment, corrupts the local authorities and causes a wave of violence and systematic human rights violations in our territories”, reads the press release.

M4 will participate in the upcoming International Popular Tribunal on Health, with people affected by Goldcorp from Canada, Mexico, Guatemala and Honduras.