Sandra Cuffe: New Republic
Alejandro Guevara hasn’t slept. There was a death in La Maraña, and Guevara, the vice president of the community environmental association, spent the night at the wake. Still, ...
... organizations express the following:
1. Our full support, recognition and solidarity with the Santa Marta Community and ADES who are now facing attempts to smear, discredit and intimidate with dubious ...
... the local community. Prostitutes were sent to local community groups to try to entice the water defenders’ leaders. Gang members were bused in from San Salvador to intimidate opponents of the pro-mining ...
... firearms to intimidate them. Residents were beaten and one was shot by OceanaGold security personnel.
The report noted that OceanaGold “is largely responsible for the continuing threats to security of ...
... company came to intimidate a peaceful camp that had been installed in the community of Guapinol as a demonstration of their legitimate opposition to an iron oxide mine operating illegally in the Carlos ...
... Platform, also reported being intimidated and threatened with detention twice by military and security agents of a supermarket.
In addition, leaders of La Lempira, including Raúl Ramírez of the Unified ...
... President Rodrigo Duterte, is often used to silence and intimidate people critical of the regime—human rights defenders, journalists, even local residents—by alleging ties between them and the national ...
... 2012 -- Peace Brigades International-Guatemala Project begins providing protective accompaniment to the Peaceful Resistance of La Puya.
December 2012 -- Security guards hired by Exmingua intimidate journalists ...
... personnel in San José del Golfo out of concern that their presence is intended to intimidate and provoke communities in resistance into thinking the mining company is back as a result of the international ...
... and to intimidate organized civil society.
Enemies of the State
“In Peru,” says Tomas Medina Mamanchulla, President of the Jatuncachi peasant community in Puno, "there are laws to criminalise popular ...
... and violence against members of communities struggling to prevent exploration and mining in San Isidro, Cabañas also affected journalists from Radio Victoria, who were repeatedly intimidated via text ...
... activity and to intimidate volunteers who were handing out flyers. The next day, June 3, 2011, Juan Francisco was abducted on his way to the Technical University in San Salvador, where he was a student. ...
... concerned and is trying to take measures against the company.”
Intimidation
Violence is often used by giant companies to intimidate locals out of challenging destructive corporate practices. The struggle ...
... part of a systematic campaign to intimidate environmental and community organizations in Cabañas. We vehemently reject the statement by the prosecutor from the Attorney General’s Office, Rodolfo Delgado, ...
... to testify against the accused during the judicial process, he was pressured by the Attorney General’s office and they tried to intimidate him by threatening to incarcerate him if he testified.
Pineda, ...
... El Salvador that have been murdered since 2009. Also, numerous other community organizers, leaders, priests, and local radio station staff have received threats and been attacked and intimidated during ...
... or intimidated for their efforts to protect El Salvador’s water, natural resources and livelihoods from harmful mining projects.
The latest outrage occurred on January 20, 2012. Father Neftalí Ruiz, ...