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September 12, 2025


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Dear Pan American Silver, No Means No!
Speaking Tour in Eastern Canada
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Xinka community defenders are touring Eastern Canada to demand respect for Indigenous self-determination in Guatemala. Rights Action encourages folks to attend the presentations in the Maritimes and Ontario … see information below.

In May 2025, a Xinka-led consultation process overwhelmingly voted NO to mining in their region and territories of Guatemala. To date, Pan American Silver (that bought the Escobal mine from Tahoe Resources in 2019) is not accepting the NO.

Xinka Delegation to Tour Eastern Canada to Demand Respect for Indigenous Self-Determination in Guatemala

30 July 2025, Viviana Herrera ([link removed]) , Mining Watch Latin America Program Coordinator
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After nearly seven years in a court-ordered consultation process, the Xinka Indigenous People of Guatemala have denied consent for the restart of Canadian Pan American Silver’s Escobal mine in southern Guatemala. The Xinka are now calling for its permanent closure. The company and Canadian authorities must respect their decision in accord with their rights to self-determination.

From September 11-23, 2025, two Xinka women leaders, Marisol Guerra and Marta Muñoz, will visit the Maritimes, Toronto and Ottawa to raise awareness about their struggle for self-determination and the health of their communities. They will speak to their concerns about the silver mine, threats and attacks against the Xinka People, the challenges they have faced during the consultation process, and their hopes for the future.

The risks of mining without the consent of the Xinka People are already clear based on the early years of the Escobal project.

The Escobal mine, originally owned by Tahoe Resources, was forced into production in early 2014 using violent repression by private security, police and military, as well as a campaign to defame and criminalize community leaders. Several members of the resistance, including 16-year-old Topacio Reynoso, were murdered during this time. A shooting attack by the company’s security on peaceful protesters outside the mine in 2013 led to a civil lawsuit against the company in British Columbia courts. Pan American Silver settled the case with the Guatemalan plaintiffs in 2019.

Maritimes Speaking Tour ([link removed]) :
* Thursday, September 11 @ 6:30 pm: Atrium 101, St. Mary’s University (SMU), Halifax, NS
* Friday, September 12 @ 7 pm: Tatamagouche Centre, Tatamagouche, NS (at the BTS 2025 Annual Gathering)
* Monday, September 15 @ 7 pm: Conserver House, 180 Saint John Street, Fredericton, NB
* Tuesday, September 16 @ 7 pm: Murphy’s Community Centre, Room 207, 200 Richmond Street, Charlottetown, PE

Toronto: September 18 - 19
* Thursday September 18th @ 5-7pm: "Resisting Canadian Mining in Guatemala: The Xinka People's Struggle for Self-Determination ([link removed]) ", York University, Kaneff Tower 519

Peterborough: September 19 - 20
* September 19th @ 7-9pm: Trent University, Stohn Hall. ([link removed])

Ottawa: September 22 - 23
* September 23 @10-11am: Press Conference in Parliament Hill press room 135-B in West Bloc
* September 23 @ 5:30-8pm: "Canada must respect Indigenous Self-Determination in Guatemala ([link removed]) ", UOttawa, Faculty of Social Sciences, Room 5028

Check back for details on events in each region

Who will be joining the delegation?

Aura Marisol Guerra is an Indigenous Xinka woman and human rights defender from the community of Santa Rosa de Lima. She is the President of the Xinka Women’s Commission and was named by her community to participate in the seven-year consultation process over the future of Pan American Silver’s Escobal mine.

Marta Muñoz Montenegro is an Indigenous Xinka woman and human rights defender from the community of San Antonio Las Flores, Mataquescuintla who was named by her community to participate in the seven-year consultation process over the future of Pan American Silver’s Escobal mine.

Delegation endorsed by:

Americas Policy Group coalition (APG) / BC Casa-Cafe Justicia / Canadian Network for Corporate Accountability (CNCA) / Codevelopment Canada / Comité pour les droits humains en Amérique latine (CDHAL) / Common Frontiers / Earthworks / Inter Pares / Institute for Policy Studies - Global Economy Program / Maritimes-Guatemala Breaking the Silence Network / Mining Justice Action Committee, Victoria, BC / Mining Justice Alliance / MiningWatch Canada / Mining Injustice Solidarity Network (MISN) / Victoria Central America Support Committee (VCASC) / Victoria Peace Coalition, Victoria, BC / Trent University Global Development Studies department

Trent University Human Rights and Global Justice department / Centre for Research on Latin America and the Caribbean (CERLAC) / Institute of Political Economy, Carleton University / Observatory on Violence, Criminalization and Democracy, University of Ottawa

Related
* News Respect Xinka Self-Determination over Canadian-Owned Mine in Guatemala ([link removed]) 28.05.2025
* Blog Entry Open Letter: 27 Canadian Organizations Support Xinka People’s Right to Self-Determination over Canadian Mine in Guatemala ([link removed]) 26.05.2025
* News Xinka Women Tour Vancouver and Victoria to Urge Respect for Indigenous Self-Determination in Guatemala ([link removed]) 20.05.2025

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Reparations are due from Tahoe Resources and Pan American Silver for mining-linked human rights violations and violence, and environmental harms

Remembering Topacio Reynoso, victim of Tahoe Resources-linked mining violence.
A photograph of Topacio Reynoso. (Carolyn Cole / Los Angeles Times). Read more in this 2017 Los Angeles Times article ([link removed])

In TESTIMONIO: Canadian Mining in the Aftermath of Genocides in Guatemala ([link removed]) (edited by Catherine Nolin and Grahame Russell, published 2021 by Between The Lines), we include a comprehensive article by Simon Granovsky-Larsen and Caren Weisbart about the widely opposed silver and gold mine that Pan American Silver took over from Tahoe Resources in Guatemala.

Since 2010, Rights Action has provided grassroots support to the land, rights and environmental defense struggle of Xinka and campesino communities, resisting and denouncing mining-linked violence, corruption and harms.

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TESTIMONIO–Canadian Mining in the Aftermath of Genocides in Guatemala ([link removed])
Edited by Catherine Nolin & Grahame Russell (Between The Lines, 2021)

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