Guatemala: Even The Cows Are Being Killed By Goldcorp's Mine In Guatemala

Guatemala: Even The Cows Are Being Killed By Goldcorp's Mine In Guatemala Grahame Russell, 2011   Goldcorp's open-pit, cyanide leaching mine is also killing cows in village of the municipality of San Miguel Ixtahuacan (department of San Marcos, Guatemala), and getting away with it with impunity.   On July 24, 2010, a local farmer Faustino Mendez (a Mayan-Mam man from the village of San Jose Ixcanique) came across two of his cows, dead. They had drunk water from a small creek flowing out...

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